Ama Ata Aidoo famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Memories #Making Memories #Humans
People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
-- Ama Ata Aidoo

#People #Bored #Worms
The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics ...
-- Ama Ata Aidoo

#Lunch #Topics #Remains
Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me.
-- Ama Ata Aidoo

#Writing #Wonder #Found
Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because it is such a precious vehicle, is time.
-- Ama Ata Aidoo

#Time #Moving #Mean
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

#Knives #Way #Sides
money-making is like a god possessing a priest. He never will leave you, until he has occupied you, wholly changed the order of your being, and seared you through and up and down. Then only would he eventually leave you, but nothing of you except an exhausted wreck, lying prone and wondering who are you.
-- Ama Ata Aidoo

#Lying #Order #Wrecks
No matter what anybody says, we can't have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.
-- Ama Ata Aidoo

#Matter
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

#Powerful #People #Progress
Love is fine for singing about and love songs are good to listen to, sometimes even to dance to. But when we need food for our stomachs and clothes for our backs, love is nothing. Ah my lady, the last man any woman should think of marrying is the man she loves.
-- Ama Ata Aidoo

#Song #Love Is #Men
They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
-- Ama Ata Aidoo

#Men
O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other. After all, if we look closer into ourselves, shall we not admit that the warmth from other people comes so sweet to us when it comes, because, we always carry with us the knowledge of the cold loneliness of death?
-- Ama Ata Aidoo

#Sweet #Lonely #Loneliness
For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
-- Ama Ata Aidoo

#Fighting #Artist #Purpose
Things are working out... towards their dazzling conclusions.
-- Ama Ata Aidoo

#Work Out #Conclusion
Ghana is like a lion without a head
-- Ama Ata Aidoo

#Ghana #Lions
Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
-- Ama Ata Aidoo

#Children #Parent #Firsts
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

#Teacher #Careers #Knowing

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