No matter what anybody says, we can't have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.

- Ama Ata Aidoo

People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.

- Ama Ata Aidoo

Love is fine for singing about and love songs are good to listen to, sometimes even to dance to. But when we need food for our stomachs and clothes f…

- Ama Ata Aidoo

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.

- Ama Ata Aidoo

Soyinka's Death at Dawn, Auden's Musée des Beaux Arts, Stevie Smith's Not Waving but Drowning and Wislawa Szymborska's Some People come to mind immed…

- Ama Ata Aidoo

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 seare…

- Ama Ata Aidoo

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 prec…

- Ama Ata Aidoo

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 w…

- Ama Ata Aidoo

Humans, not places, make memories.

- Ama Ata Aidoo