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

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.

Ghana is like a lion without a head

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.

Ah God! What a loving father you are!

She had a sense of herself being brain dead: running on tubes and machines.

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

Criminality is always the result of poverty.

I am an actress, a producer, a philanthropist, a wife, and above all a mommy to my beautiful babies, Leonardo and Valentino.

God judges a tree by its fruits and not by its roots.

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

Redirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol.