The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics.

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

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

Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people. By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood.

We become the books we read.

What is needed is the constant unmasking of ego's strategy.

What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.

There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.

I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.

How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.

Higher income people don't have to pay taxes if they don't want to.