Ama Ata Aidoo Quotes
Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.
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My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and 'going' with this girl, 'Is this true love?'
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One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.
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Art-school girls are very nice.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't go back home would be a horribly sad place to be, as is mistaking fame for genuine love and affection.
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Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.
