Ama Ata Aidoo Quotes

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It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

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People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.

Ama Ata Aidoo
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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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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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
Old yam has to rot in order that new yam can grow. Where is the earth? Who is going to do the planting?

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Negativism is malign, like cancer. It chokes all life within its reach as it grows.

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I feel the revolutionalizing of our continent hinges on the woman questions.

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Our people say a bad marriage kills the soul. Mine is fit for burial.

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From all around the Third World,
You hear the same story;
Rulers Asleep to all things at
All times –
Conscious only of Riches,
which they gather in a
Coma –
Intravenously.

Ama Ata Aidoo
No matter what anybody says, we can't have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.

Ama Ata Aidoo
The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics...

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They let her know that she was unwelcome, and a burden they did not know what to do with. Having to deal with a man who is over-qualified for a job is bad enough. To have to cope with an over-qualified woman in any situation is a complete misfortune.

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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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It is beginning to look as if the nicest husband is always the one someone else is living with, no?

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