"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."

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Source : Ama Ata Aidoo (1987). “The dilemma of a ghost ; Anowa: two plays”, Prentice Hall

Ama Ata Aidoo

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“In itself, I spent a year writing, you know all these different songs and when it came to recording the record, I just pulled out all the tracks I liked the most.”
“Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a sense of place. It is not a thing, Eden, but a pattern of relationships, made visible in conversation. To live in Eden is to live in the midst of good relations, of just relations scrupulously attended to, imaginatively maintained through time. Altogether we call this beauty.”
“A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.”
“I think it's one thing if you are turning out dozens or even a hundred stories a year, you've got to have a great supporting cast behind you. Superman had a family that developed, and it's only natural that Batman has a family of sorts that developed. I think it's a great way to keep the comics interesting and varied, to appeal to different segments of an audience, to bring new perspectives to it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“But things were different now. I finally had my head -pun intended- on straight.”
“When the song is over, the mikes turned off, the lights dimmed, all the glitter and glamour shed, and I am left alone with my own thoughts, free to contemplate the paths that led me to where I am today, I pause to give thanks.”

Source : CeCe Winans (2000). “On a Positive Note”, Beyond Words/Atria Books
“I've been on the songs of all these rappers that put out an album, and my music is still better.”
“Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.”

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