Ghana is like a lion without a head

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.

Humans, not places, make memories.

There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.

Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because it is such a precious vehicle, is time.

People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.

No matter what anybody says, we can't have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.

the best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it.

They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.

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.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

The key is love, the action is service, and the joy is knowing the grandeur that is God in us and in everything.

The last time I saw Marilyn was in late 1959, when I appeared in Let's Make Love at Fox. The wide-eyed Marilyn I had first known was gone. This Marilyn was more beautiful than ever.

Love is an obsolete emotion, ranking in usefulness somewhere between earwigs and toe mold.

I met my fathers in prison, they too a part of a scene; digging death.

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

If we can change our priorities, achieve balance and understanding in our roles as human beings in a complex world, the coming era can well be that of a richer civilization, not its end.

A good friend is like a wonderful book, the inside is even better than the cover!

In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?