Ayi Kwei Armah Quotes
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.
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There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.
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In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.
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I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
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It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so.
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Leaders should be the chief repenters.
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Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
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Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living.
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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.
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Carolyn [Maloney] is the kind of legislator who, whether she's in the majority or the minority, whether her party is in the majority or the minority, she doesn't take "No" for an answer, and she frequently calls women leaders and say, "I think we should do this. This is really necessary for women." And so she hangs in there and gets bills passed when people think it's not possible.
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In my generation, we learned how to be leaders by being exposed to and involved with adults who empowered us and gave us a sense that we could choose things. We've let down the generations coming behind us and we are trying to re- establish that connection.
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Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.
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For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
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I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.
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I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.
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You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of boredom.
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I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.
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I believe every single one of us has a choice in life and that we can all choose to live out whatever our exceptional minds dream up.
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Poets are band leaders who have failed.
