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Ama Ata Aidoo Quotes
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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.
Ama Ata Aidoo
Fight
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Corruption
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Why
At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.
Ama Ata Aidoo
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Teacher
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It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
Ama Ata Aidoo
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Children
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Parents
People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
Ama Ata Aidoo
God
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Bored
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Worms
They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
Ama Ata Aidoo
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Ghanaian
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Born:
March 23
, 1942
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