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

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.

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.

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.

You don´t have time to waste time.

There is a poem at the heart of things and a mythic story in the heart of each of us.

A bird with a broken wing cannot survive nor will a man with a broken spirit endure.

What I have to do from here is I have to do the best I can to carry on.

Slowly, without taking his eyes from hers, the man in the black coat knelt before her. ”I have come for the girl in the window,” he said, and his eyes filled with tears

I want to be all used up when I die.

In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.

Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within.

There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same time.

Trying to order your world so that its predictable and safe is counterproducti ve to growth.