"The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics."
Ama Ata Aidoo was a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright, politician, and academic. She was the Secretary for Education in Ghana from 1982 to 1983 under Jerry Rawlings's PNDC administration.
"Money making is like a god possessing a priest. He never will leave you, until he has occupied you, wholly changed the order of your being, and seared you through and up and down, Then only would he eventually leave you, but nothing of you except an exhausted wreck, lying prone and wondering who are you."
Ama Ata Aidoo"There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change."
Ama Ata Aidoo"Guilt is born in the same hour with pleasure, like anything in this universe and its enemy."
Ama Ata Aidoo"Love? Love? Love is not safe, my lady silk, love is dangerous. It is deceitfully sweet like wine from a fresh palm tree at dawn. Love is fine for singing about and love songs are good to listen to, sometimes even to dance to. But when we need to count on human strength, and when we have to count pennies for food for our stomachs and clothes for our backs, love is nothing. Ah my lady, the last man any woman should think of marrying is the man she loves."
Ama Ata Aidoo"In so many places in the world, there is an assumption that African women are the most oppressed. It is not true, we are not! At least not all."
Ama Ata Aidoo"People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics."
Ama Ata Aidoo