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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 Quotes: The beauty was in the
The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future
Ayi Kwei Armah Quotes: The present is where we
True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth had been hidden. But then the same men, when they have power in their hands at last, began to find the veils useful. They made many more. Life has not changed. Only some people have been growing, becoming different, that is all. After a youth spent fighting the white man, why should not the president discover as he grows older that his real desire has been to be like the white governor himself, to live above all the blackness in the big old slave castle?
Ayi Kwei Armah Quotes: True, I used to see
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 Quotes: Alone, i am nothing. i
A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul.
Ayi Kwei Armah Quotes: A mind attacked and conquered
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 after all we are not alone.
Ayi Kwei Armah Quotes: I did point out that
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 Quotes: When you can see the
Poets are band leaders who have failed.
Ayi Kwei Armah Quotes: Poets are band leaders who
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 Quotes: The sand looked so beautiful
Others devoted to life will surely find that between the creation of life and the destruction of the destroyers there is no difference but a necessary, indispensable connection; that nothing good can be created that does not of its very nature push forward the destruction of the destroyers.
Ayi Kwei Armah Quotes: Others devoted to life will
You have a fullness you need to bring out. It's not an emptiness you need to cover up with things.
Ayi Kwei Armah Quotes: You have a fullness you
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 Quotes: How horribly rapid everything has
There is indeed a great force in the world, a force spiritual and able to shape the physical universe, but that force is not something cut off, not something separate from ourselves. It is the energy in us, the strongest in our working, breathing, thinking together as one people; weakest when we are scattered, confused, broken into individual, unconnected fragments.
Ayi Kwei Armah Quotes: There is indeed a great
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