6 touching quotes that would make you re-read the 'The beautyful ones are not yet born' by Ayi Kwei Armah

Here is one perfect book you should re-read to remind yourself of the Ghanaian society during Kwame Nkrumah’s regime and why the Ghanian vs Nigerian Jollof argument is useless and stupid.

1. "Only a dishonest fool will look back on his boyhood and say he knew even then that there was no meaning in any of it"

2. “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.”

3. “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.”

4. “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 things finally understood, the humiliating feeling of the watcher's nothingness.”

5. “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 in their hands at last, began to find the veils useful. They made many more. Life has not changed. Only some people have been growing, becoming different, that is all. After a youth spent fighting the white man, why should not the president discover as he grows older that his real desire has been to be like the white governor himself, to live above all the blackness in the big old slave castle?”

6. "Why do we waste so much time with sorrow and pity for ourselves?"