I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and failed. Since I've been trained to write, I do that as a defense against total despair. And seeing people like you, who are actively engaged in trying to salvage pieces of our wrecked lives, gives me hope that… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share
True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth had been hidden. But… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood feeling of… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
The beauty was in the waking of the powerless. Is it always to be true that it is impossible to have things strong and… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
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… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul. — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
How horribly rapid everything has been, from the days when men were not ashamed to talk of souls and of suffering and of hope… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist. — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
“others devoted to life will surely find that between the creation of life and the destruction of the destroyers there is no difference but… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
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… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
