All Taiye Selasi Quotes
- Sight is subjective. We learned that in class. Class
- I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford. Age
- What distinguishes [Afropolitans] is a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that mean most to… Africa
- As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in,… Artist
- I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart. Clear
- The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips. Excruciating
- I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play. Been
- When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen. Appear
- The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart. Blank
- 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 about… African
- Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I… Centre
- 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… Arabia
- So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than… African
- As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own. Inspirational
- As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully. Ask
- I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims. Ambition
- Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and… All
- I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings. African
- I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones. African
- The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named… Accra