Ayi Kwei Armah

I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and…

— Ayi Kwei Armah

True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth had been…

— Ayi Kwei Armah

The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood…

— 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…

— Ayi Kwei Armah

Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don’t see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I…

— Ayi Kwei Armah

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

— Ayi Kwei Armah

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

— 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…

— Ayi Kwei Armah

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

— Ayi Kwei Armah

“others devoted to life will surely find that between the creation of life and the destruction of the destroyers there is no…

— Ayi Kwei Armah

Poets are band leaders who have failed.

— 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…

— 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…

— Ayi Kwei Armah