I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and failed. Since I've been trained to writ…

- Ayi Kwei Armah

True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth had been hidden. But then the same men, when they have power …

- Ayi Kwei Armah

Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don’t see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither sk…

- Ayi Kwei Armah

The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future

- Ayi Kwei Armah

The beauty was in the waking of the powerless. Is it always to be true that it is impossible to have things strong and at the same time beautiful? Th…

- Ayi Kwei Armah

The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood feeling of infinite t…

- Ayi Kwei Armah

Poets are band leaders who have failed.

- Ayi Kwei Armah

A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul.

- Ayi Kwei Armah

When you can see the end of things even in their beginnings, there's no more hope, unless you want to pretend, or forget, or get drunk or something.

- Ayi Kwei Armah