The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics.
AMA ATA AIDOOO yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other.
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Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
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It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
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I’ve written poems about gifts.
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O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other.
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Soyinka’s Death at Dawn, Auden’s Musée des Beaux Arts, Stevie Smith’s Not Waving but Drowning and Wislawa Szymborska’s Some People come to mind immediately. But there are plenty, plenty more that I enjoy.
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Humans, not places, make memories.
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They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
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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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For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism.
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I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.
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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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Things are working out… towards their dazzling conclusions.
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Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.
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Ghana is like a lion without a head
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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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