Kofi Awoonor Quotes & Sayings

We go through transformations when we are dealing with this world (spirit world). Go out and find whatever makes your spirit at peace. — Kofi Awoonor

Find your own 'sweet spot'. Take your talents and enjoy them, share them, expand them. — Kofi Awoonor

On the Gallows Once
Kofi Awoonor

I crossed quite a few
of your rivers, my gods,
into this plain where thirst reigns
I heard the cry of mourners
the long cooing of the African wren at dusk
the laughter of the children at dawn
had long ceased
night comes fast in our land
where indeed are the promised vistas
the open fields, blue skies, the singing birds
and abiding love?
History records acts
of heroism, barbarism
of some who had power
and abused it massively
of some whose progenitors
planned for them
the secure state of madness
from which no storm can shake them;
of some who took the last ships
disembarked on some far-off shores and forgot
of some who simply laid down the load
and went home to the ancestors — Kofi Awoonor

Where lies our salvation? You asked. We do not need any salvation. Does not our end lie on this beginning shore? — Kofi Awoonor

In our beginnings lies our journey's end. — Kofi Awoonor