Top 38 Aidoo Quotes
#1. People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#3. 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.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#4. 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.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#5. 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.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#6. Could it be possible that he really did have enough imagination to be able to grasp the truth?
Diana Gabaldon
#7. There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#8. 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.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#9. A dog among the masters, the most masterly of the dogs.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#10. 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 Aidoo
#11. Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#12. Every man has a devouring passion in his heart, as every fruit has its worm.
Alexander Dumas
#15. I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me.
Jodelle Ferland
#16. No matter what anybody says, we can't have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#17. 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.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#18. End of the Summer
It was end of the summer
And my heart was broken
but i was smiling, laughing, making jokes
Like there was nothing bleeding inside
As always.
Arzum Uzun
#19. When we, by the working of mercy and grace, be made meek and mild, we are fully safe; suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath.
Julian Of Norwich
#20. Racism is like high blood pressure - the person who has it doesn't know he has it until he drops over with a God damned stroke. There are no symptoms of racism. The victim of racism is in a much better position to tell you whether or not you're a racist than you are.
Coleman Young
#21. 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.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#22. Things are working out ... towards their dazzling conclusions.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#23. We create a mask to meet the masks of others. Then we wonder why we cannot love, and why we feel so alone.
Brenda Shoshanna
#24. 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.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#25. 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.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#27. But what she also came to know was that someone somewhere would always see in any kind of difference, an excuse to be mean.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#28. Once, in an interview with 'V' magazine, I said that I preferred Fitzgerald to Hemingway. I think that Hemingway is an amazing writer, but by being related to him, I had it in my head that I had to like him.
Dree Hemingway
#29. 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.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#30. 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.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#31. They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#33. The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics ...
Ama Ata Aidoo
#34. It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#35. 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?
Ama Ata Aidoo
#36. Adversity is a mirage. People, situations, and relationships sometimes change for the worst but inevitably clear a path for far better replacements. The continued journey will always find bliss.
Carl Henegan
#38. Flanking strategies in sales situations actually mean one of five things: (1) changing the pain, (2) changing the power, (3) changing the process, (4) linking solutions or products, or (5) expanding scope.
Rick Page
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