Nkrumah Of Ghana Quotes & Sayings

As far as i am concerned, i am in the knowledge that death can never extinguish the torch which i have lit in Ghana and Africa. Long after i am dead and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all people — Kwame Nkrumah

Nobody's ever satisfied until they've been dead a good week. — Lucille Kallen

At long last, the battle has ended!
And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever! — Kwame Nkrumah

The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent — Kwame Nkrumah

Nkrumah declared that we faced neither East nor West but we faced forward. But, see, we can face forward and just look at the horizon. Sometimes, as I think of Ghana, I am tempted to believe that we kept looking East and West and never made up our minds, so we just stood still. — Nana Awere Damoah

Know ye what it is to be a child? It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The fortunes of the African revolution are closely linked with the world-wide struggle against imperialism. It does not matter where the battle erupts, be it in Africa, Asia or Latin America, the master-mind and master-hand at work are the same. The oppressed and exploited people are striving for their freedom against exploitation and suppression. Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor. — Kwame Nkrumah

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems. — Kenneth E. Boulding

And he smiled the wild, vicious smile that had made me fall in love. — Rosamund Hodge

A style of this sort will seem to modern readers marred by classical stiffness
"Truth," "Knowers," "the Good," "Man"
but we can by no means deny that behind our objection to such language is a guilty consciousness of the flimsiness, and not infrequently the trashiness, of our modern talk about "values. — Saul Bellow