As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully. — Taiye Selasi Novelists Copy Share Image
I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart. — Taiye Selasi Clear Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings. — Taiye Selasi African Copy Share Image
Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to… — Taiye Selasi Centre Copy Share Image
The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips. — Taiye Selasi Excruciating pain 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… — Taiye Selasi Africa Copy Share Image
When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen. — Taiye Selasi Anything and everything Copy Share Image
I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims. — Taiye Selasi Ambition Copy Share Image
“und dass es in Nordamerika kaum zweieiige Zwillinge gab (ganz anders beispielsweise in Nigeria, wo Zwillinge die Norm waren).�” — taiye selasi Beispielsweise Nigeria 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,… — Taiye Selasi Loss 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… — Taiye Selasi Emotion 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… — Taiye Selasi Acceptable 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… — Taiye Selasi Dreamers 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,… — Taiye Selasi Loss 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… — Taiye Selasi Books Copy Share Image
What distinguishes [Afropolitans] is a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that… — Taiye Selasi Africa 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… — Taiye Selasi Black star Copy Share Image
I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones. — Taiye Selasi African Copy Share Image
I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play. — Taiye Selasi Fiction Copy Share Image
As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own. — Taiye Selasi Language Copy Share Image
“She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the world.” — Taiye Selasi Disconnection Copy Share Image
The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart. — Taiye Selasi Blank Copy Share Image
How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept? — Taiye Selasi Concept Copy Share Image
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford. — Taiye Selasi Age Copy Share Image
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… — Taiye Selasi Arabia Copy Share Image
So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import… — Taiye Selasi Books Copy Share Image
Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life… — Taiye Selasi Christmas Copy Share Image
“There was the one basic storyline, which everyone knew, with the few custom endings to choose now and again. Basic: humming grandmas… — Taiye Selasi Basic Copy Share Image
That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has… — Taiye Selasi Been Copy Share Image
I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful… — Taiye Selasi Beautiful Copy Share Image
As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist… — Taiye Selasi Art Copy Share Image
“He feels a second pang now for the existence of perfection, the stubborn existence of perfection in the most vulnerable of things… — Taiye Selasi Africa 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)
