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.
AMA ATA AIDOONo matter what anybody says, we can’t have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.
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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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No matter what anybody says, we can’t have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.
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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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I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.
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It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
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People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
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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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They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
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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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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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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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Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.
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Ghana is like a lion without a head
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Things are working out… towards their dazzling conclusions.
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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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