Ayi Kwei Armah Quotes

Two thousand season, a thousand going into it, a second thousand crawling maimed from it, will teach you everything about enslavement, the destruction of souls, the killing of bodies, the infusion of violence into every breath, every drop, every morsel of your sustaining air, your water, your food. Till you come again upon the way.

Isanusi sees Abena and, thinking she is alone, despairs. When the other 19 members of the community are revealed, Isanusi asks about Tawi and invites everyone to his small shelter. Isanusi asks them about their motivations for returning. They explain that they view their project as the “necessary work of preparation against destruction.

To them that know their destination fatigue is a brief stranger merely passing in the glare of day.

Purpose lends wings to the traveller.

Dishonest words are the food for the rotten spirits.

It is not easy to hide any kind of love and young love loathes disguise.

A people losing sight of origins are dead. A people deaf to purposes are lost. Under fertile rain, in scorching sunshine there is no difference: their bodies are mere corpses, awaiting final burial.

She spoke of those needing the white destroyers' shiny things to bring a feeling of worth into their lives, uttered their deep-rooted inferiority of soul, and called them lacking in the essence of humanity: womanhood in women, manhood in men. For which deficiency they must crave things to eke out their beings, things to fill holes in their spirits.

Of unconnected consciousness is there more to say beyond the clear recognition this is destruction's keenest tool against the soul?

Vagina sweet, money sweet pass all, who born fool socialism chop make chop country broke you broken not so? Pray for detention jail man chop free

Alone I can nothing,I have nothing.we have power but we will never see it work,unless we choose to come together to make it work let us come together

These men who were to lead us out of our despair,they came like man already grown fat and cynical with the eating of centuries of power they had never struggled for old before they had even been borninto power,and ready only for the grave.

Mmmm life has treated her well

Have you ever seen a big man without girls

Take that one for yourself and give the other one to your friend.