Ayi Kwei Armah Quotes

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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
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
The beauty was in the waking of the powerless. Is it always to be true that it is impossible to have things strong and at the same time beautiful? The famished men need not stay famished. But to gorge themselves in this heartbreaking way consuming, utterly destroying the common promise of their greed, was that ever necessary?

Ayi Kwei Armah
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
I am here against the last of my veils. Take me. I am ready. You are the end. The beginning. You who have no end. I am coming.

Ayi Kwei Armah
A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul.

Ayi Kwei Armah
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
Each thing that goes away returns and nothing in the end is lost. The great friend throws all things apart and brings all things together again. That is the way everything goes and turns round. That is how all living things come back after long absences, and in the whole great world all things are living things. All that goes returns.

Ayi Kwei Armah
It should be easy now to see there have never been people to save anybody but themselves, never in the past, never now, and there will never be any saviors if each will not save himself.

Ayi Kwei Armah