I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
“loss” is a notion. No more than a thought. Which one forms or one doesn’t. With words. Such that one cannot lose, nor ever… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
“Then Ghana, and the smell of Ghana, a contradiction, a cracked clay pot: the smell of dryness, wetness, both, the damp of earth and… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
What distinguishes [Afropolitans] is a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that mean most… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
“und dass es in Nordamerika kaum zweieiige Zwillinge gab (ganz anders beispielsweise in Nigeria, wo Zwillinge die Norm waren).�” — taiye selasi Copy Share Image
“loss” is a notion. No more than a thought. Which one forms or one doesn’t. With words. Such that one cannot lose, nor ever… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
“They were doers and thinkers and lovers and seekers and givers, but dreamers, most dangerously of all. They were dreamer-women. Very dangerous women. Who… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
![“What distinguishes [Afropolitans] is a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that mean most to them. Perhaps what most typifies the Afropolitan consciousness is the refusal to oversimplify; the effort to understand what is ailing in…” quote by Taiye Selasi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/687/taiye-selasi-17671_celebrate_what-distinguishes-afropolitans-is-a-wil_365180.jpg)
