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Ama Ata Aidoo Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: ghanaian
Birth: March 23, 1942

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Age Teacher Me Career Why Knowing

While I was growing up in Flushing, Queens, we socialized exclusively with other Chinese immigrants. I was forbidden to make contact with nonapproved, non-Chinese peers outside school. That was fine with me.

School Me Growing Up Immigrants Up

'Tempting the Best Man' centers around Madison Daniels, who's had a major crush on her brother's best friend since she was a girl.

Jennifer Armentrout

Friend Girl Best Man Brother She

When she died, Mom left me her letters and journals. Windows into things I would have been too young to understand when she was alive, or too busy, or too much of a know-it-all.

Me Mom Busy Too Much Alive Young

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

Success Dark Dark Side Be Careful

As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s.

Communication History Discipline Book

So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.

Joshua Lederberg

Sitting Right Things Us Just Front

Freedom is the thing that has attracted me most to jazz. Within improvisation, you're really able to express something that maybe I'm not so adept at expressing via language. So I develop a language through the instrument to tell stories. So it's kind of this freedom of thought and freedom of expression that kind happens.

Freedom Me Thought Language You

Nobody gave me anything. I conquered everything. And I gave them a lot more than they gave me back.

Me Back Nobody More Everything Than

Character actors have a long shelf life.

Dennis Christopher

Life Character Long Shelf Shelf Life

I've had high-powered publicists in my career, and I've had publicists when they've had no power. I've run the gamut.

Power Career Run Had

I feel like I gave my son to this country in an illegal and immoral war, and I'll never get him back.

Son War Feel Back Country Never

I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a grown-up means doing every part of the larger task.

Chuck Palahniuk

Job Joy Writing Doing Promotion

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