"The beauty was in the waking of the……" — 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?"
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Ayi Kwei Armah
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11 Quotes by Ayi Kwei Armah
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The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future
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Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist.
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A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul.
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True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth…
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How horribly rapid everything has been, from the days when men were not ashamed to talk of souls and of…
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When you can see the end of things even in their beginnings, there's no more hope, unless you want to…
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Alone, i am nothing. i have nothing.we have power.but we will never know it,we will never see it work.unless we…
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The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher…
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I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more…
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Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don’t see this connection merely wish to be entertained,…
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