Ayi Kwei Armah Quotes
I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and failed. Since I've been trained to write, I do that as a defense against total despair. And seeing people like you, who are actively engaged in trying to salvage pieces of our wrecked lives, gives me hope that after all we are not alone.
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Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.
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I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done.
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There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
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I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.
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Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
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I tend to sort of over-accessorize, but to feel empowered, I strip it all down and become minimal so that it's almost counterintuitive.
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We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do.
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You have to be passionate about something other than yourself!
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
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Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.
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The energy and generosity of spirit of the people I meet everywhere I perform is what inspires me to make music and through the music, we share a bond even if we may never have met. As long as there is a single person who may find something they are looking for or a feeling they need in my music, I will continue to write for that person.
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I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and failed. Since I've been trained to write, I do that as a defense against total despair. And seeing people like you, who are actively engaged in trying to salvage pieces of our wrecked lives, gives me hope that after all we are not alone.
