Concepts Quote by Taiye Selasi Download Open image “How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept?” — Taiye Selasi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Concepts Human beings Humans Nations Nature of man
Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution. — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
I find a tremendous receptivity among the public for the subject matter of, 'Where did we come from and how did we get here?'… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
I think most people are interested in our origins; once we understand, it might be easier to become the people we'd like to be.… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
People need to understand, we can come together as a nation; we can create a culture of life. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
We come from the earth. We come from the universe. We are special creatures, and we have magnificent powers. — Justin Nozuka Copy Share Image
I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear? — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
We all come from someplace. We didn't just get here by accident. Where we come from has got to be known, if you want… — Edward James Olmos Copy Share Image
“The outside also becomes us. A human being is born an unfinished organism and as the person develops experience with others becomes a physical… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
You think of yourself as a citizen of the universe. You think you belong to this world of dust and matter. Out of this… — Rumi 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 dry of dust. The airport. Bodies pushing, pulling, shouting, begging, touching, breathing. He'd forgotten the bodies. The proximity of bodies. In America the bodies were distant. The warmth of it … Why had he hated this… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share
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 Africa alongside the desire to honour what is wonderful, unique. Rather than essentialising the… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share
“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
Capability is just a concept of what is it we're looking at. Now how far we can go along that and what new capabilities… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales where walking was part of the… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful concepts, one which is a sure cure for lack of confidence, is the thought that God is with you and helping you. This is one of the simplest teachings in religion, namely, that Almighty God will be your companion, will stand by you, help you, and see you through. No other idea is so powerful… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share
All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts. — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
So many times we come to Jesus in worship and ask Him for things that He already IS and has already done... What a… — Christy Nockels Copy Share Image
