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Quotes from The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born — Ayi Kwei Armah

born 1939 Ghana

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Take that one for yourself and give the other one to your friend.

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968)

Have you ever seen a big man without girls

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968)

Alone, i am nothing. i have nothing.we have power.but we will never know it,we will never see it work.unless we come together to make it work.

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968)

Alone I can nothing,I have nothing.we have power but we will never see it work,unless we choose to come together to make it work let us come together

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968)

These men who were to lead us out of our despair,they came like man already grown fat and cynical with the eating of centuries of power they had never struggled for old before they had even been borninto power,and ready only for the grave.

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968)

Mmmm life has treated her well

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968)

Vagina sweet, money sweet pass all, who born fool socialism chop make chop country broke you broken not so? Pray for detention jail man chop free

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968)

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 skill nor desire to turn the agony of a people into entertainment.

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968)

I know people who won more than Five hundred cedis last year they still haven't got their money. I hope some officials at the lottery place will take some of my hundred cedis as a bribe and allow me to have the rest.

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968)

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