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Ghana is like a lion without a head — Ama Ata Aidoo

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Work is love made visible. — Ama Ata Aidoo

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

If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would. — Brent Scowcroft

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

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

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

They had always told me that I wrote like a man. — Ama Ata Aidoo

The world know it not; but you, Autumn, I confess it: your wind at night-fall stabs deep into my heart — Murasaki Shikibu

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

He wielded verbal italics as if they were capable of actual bodily harm. — Gail Carriger

A dog among the masters, the most masterly of the dogs. — 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

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. — David R. Brower

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. — Erich Maria Remarque

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

Because I am an African, I am a Ghanaian. — 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. — Ama Ata Aidoo

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

Humans, not places, make memories. — Ama Ata Aidoo

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

Former president Wulff said Islam belongs to Germany. That is true. I also hold this opinion. — Angela Merkel

Things are working out ... towards their dazzling conclusions. — Ama Ata Aidoo

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

How do you shut out a scream that comes from inside your mind? — Marie Lu

Juliette trusted the darkness to conceal her smile. — Hugh Howey

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. — Mary Wortley Montagu