Quote by Taiye Selasi

I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings.

— Taiye Selasi

“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

“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

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

“und dass es in Nordamerika kaum zweieiige Zwillinge gab (ganz anders beispielsweise in Nigeria, wo Zwillinge die Norm waren).�”

— taiye selasi

Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.

— Taiye Selasi

“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

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

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

“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

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

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