"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."

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Source : Ama Ata Aidoo (2015). “Changes: A Love Story”, p.168, The Feminist Press at CUNY

Ama Ata Aidoo

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“I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do them”
“I desired to know why one person was ailing and his associate, eating at the same table, working in the same shop, at the same bench was not. Why? What difference was there in these two persons that caused one to have various diseases, while his partner escaped?”
“Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. While there are many theories of creativity, the only tenet they all share is that creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions. The best way to maximize differences is to mix ages, cultures, and disciplines.”
“The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.62, Prestwick House Inc
“We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems.”

Source : 'Ode" l. 7 (1874)
“There can be no burden for distant unreached peoples without a burden for unreached neighbors.”
“I wasn't very big on going to school. I tried to get a gig as a luthier.”
“To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can't learn. If you have too much, you will think you don't have to learn.”

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