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No matter what anybody says, we can’t have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.

Ama Ata Aidoo

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.
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Age Ask Career Fifteen Poet Reply Teacher Want
After all, if we look closer into ourselves, shall we not admit that the warmth from other people comes so sweet to us when it comes, because, we always carry with us the knowledge of the cold loneliness of death?
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Admit Closer Come Death Knowledge Loneliness Ourselves People Warmth
No matter what anybody says, we can’t have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.
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All Anyone Matter No Say Woman
Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because it is such a precious vehicle, is time.
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Carry Mean Mov Nothing Precious Something Time Unless Value Vehicle
I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.
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Always Poetry Very Want When Write Young
It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
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Artist Country Understandable
People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
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Antics Create Even God Immensely People Worm
There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.
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Chance Force never Powerful Progress Underestimate
They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
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Always Amn Told Wrote
the best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it.
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Best Consider Knife Neither One Riddle Sharpen Side Solve Way
Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me.
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Catch Courage Found Myself Once Start Too While Wonder Write Young
Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly, is not difficult.
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Difficult Frankly Idea Interset Occur Once Poem Rest Theme Want
Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.
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Argument Poem Sometimes Trigger Word
Ghana is like a lion without a head
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Ghanam Like Head Lion Without
Things are working out… towards their dazzling conclusions.
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Conclusion Cut Dazzling Toward Work
Love is fine for singing about and love songs are good to listen to, sometimes even to dance to. But when we need food for our stomachs and clothes for our backs, love is nothing. Ah my lady, the last man any woman should think of marrying is the man she loves.
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Back Cloth Dance Food Good Love Man Marry Need Sing Sometimes Stomach

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