Top 26 Ayi Kwei Armah Quotes

#1. The best-armed and best-trained divisions of the Syrian army are Alawite.

Elliott Abrams

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#2. If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.

Carl Jung

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#3. Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist.

Ayi Kwei Armah

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#4. I'd hear guys bragging about their new Gulfstream IV or IV-SP, and then I'd get to say, "That's great, guys. Let me talk about my 747 . . ." It was a great conversation stopper.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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#5. Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don't see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither skill nor desire to turn the agony of a people into entertainment.

Ayi Kwei Armah

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#6. The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind.

Ken Kesey

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#7. Poets are band leaders who have failed.

Ayi Kwei Armah

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#8. I have to hide here. You don't." She frowned at him. "Do you?" "Yes. I do. I scare little children. Hell, I scare adults." "You don't scare me.

Katy Regnery

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#9. The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood feeling of infinite things finally understood, the humiliating feeling of the watcher's nothingness.

Ayi Kwei Armah

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#10. In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy.

Sebastian Faulks

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#11. A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul.

Ayi Kwei Armah

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#12. Listening to these stories reminded me of the words of the great Ghanaian novelist Ayi Kwei Armah: For seasons and seasons and seasons, all our movement has been going against our self, a journey into our killer's desire.

Gloria Steinem

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#13. When you can see the end of things even in their beginnings, there's no more hope, unless you want to pretend, or forget, or get drunk or something.

Ayi Kwei Armah

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#14. Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

V.S. Naipaul

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#15. Outrage alternated with a sweaty fear he had never before felt. Something, it seemed to him was being drained from him, leaving the body feeling like a very dry sponge, very light, completely at the mercy of sly toying gusts of wind.

Ayi Kwei Armah

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#16. Those who act like a mirror and show the true face of the nation to the nation itself are the real heroes of the nation, because all a nation needs is to see his real face, to see his faults!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#17. It was our fate and our natures, flawed and wounded, that brought us together - Violet Minturn

Amy Tan

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#18. Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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#19. Others devoted to life will surely find that between the creation of life and the destruction of the destroyers there is no difference but a necessary, indispensable connection; that nothing good can be created that does not of its very nature push forward the destruction of the destroyers.

Ayi Kwei Armah

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#20. You have a fullness you need to bring out. It's not an emptiness you need to cover up with things.

Ayi Kwei Armah

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#21. Alone, i am nothing. i have nothing.we have power.but we will never know it,we will never see it work.unless we come together to make it work.

Ayi Kwei Armah

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#22. If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [ ... ], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

Salman Rushdie

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#23. I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'

Maisie Williams

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#24. The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future

Ayi Kwei Armah

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#25. How horribly rapid everything has been, from the days when men were not ashamed to talk of souls and of suffering and of hope to these low days of smiles that will never again be sly enough to hide the knowledge of betrayal and deceit.

Ayi Kwei Armah

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#26. All kids want from their dad is for them to be around - and to show up when they say they're going to show up.

Nicole Ari Parker

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