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Quotes from Osiris Rising — Ayi Kwei Armah

born 1939 Ghana

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Others have come searching. Wha t they find they take back to America [...] to sell [...]

Osiris Rising (1995)

Here, educated people use their intelligence to avoid risk, to accumulate power, money, privilege. We call it security. That makes our choices sound less cowardly, not so greedy

Osiris Rising (1995)

He seemed to have no weight at all. There he was winning prizes, playing for the school team, starting a study group. Yet he drew no feeling of importance from anything he did. He floated

Osiris Rising (1995)

Yet she suspected that in its ten thousand disguises Cinque's Zombi corpse still ruled Africa; that those working to remember the dismembered continent were still fugitives in need of sanctuary from the storm troopers of destruction.

Osiris Rising (1995)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ayi Kwei Armah (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.