Ayi Kwei Armah Quotes
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.
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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People would pay money to work at CNN.
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Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience.
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Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
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The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
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It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear – usually justified – the other side would beat them to a pulp.
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Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
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When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk on the table: it attracts the dead.
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Saepius illareligio peperit scelerosa atque impia facta.
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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.
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Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God.
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You know what takes effort? Being kind. Being patient. Being respectful.
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One of the side-effects of having your work appear in a public forum such as this is that people often email me asking for advice on how to break into writing, presumably figuring that if a drooling gum-brain like me can scrape a living witlessly pawing at a keyboard, there's hope for anyone.
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When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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You can't take yourself too seriously.
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In order to represent the state, you've got to be in the state.
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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.
