Top 26 Ama Ata Aidoo Quotes
#1. You know perfectly well that if ever you really want to, you can come back to me, he said without the slightest trace of irony and cynicism, and left.
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#2. For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
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#3. Things are working out ... towards their dazzling conclusions.
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#4. Sissie knew that she had to stop herself from crying. Why weep for them? In fact, stronger in her was the desire to ask somebody why the entire world has had to pay so much and is still paying so much for some folks' unhappiness.
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#5. And yet, I have not wronged you, have I? Indeed if there is anyone I may have sinned against, it is me. That desiring you as I do, needing you as I do, I still let you go.
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#7. But what she also came to know was that someone somewhere would always see in any kind of difference, an excuse to be mean.
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#8. 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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#9. They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
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#11. The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics ...
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#12. It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
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#13. O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other. 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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#14. Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.
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#16. 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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#17. We are victims of our history and our present. They place too many obstacles in the way of love. And we cannot enjoy even our differences in peace.
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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. My lady Silk, remember that a man always gains in stature any way he chooses to associate with a woman - including adultery ... but in her association with a man, a woman is always in danger of being diminished.
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#21. A dog among the masters, the most masterly of the dogs.
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#22. 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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#23. People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
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#25. No matter what anybody says, we can't have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.
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#26. Africa is not fulfilling people's hopes and aspirations. African leaders have not had an agenda that included governing Africa so that people would find their careers, their life, dreams and visions fulfilled here.
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