"Being a twin, and being my sister's twin,……" — Taiye Selasi
"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 am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre."
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23 Quotes by Taiye Selasi
Taiye Selasi has 23 quotes on this site.
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Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.
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I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to…
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What distinguishes [Afropolitans] is a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of…
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As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when…
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I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
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The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.
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I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
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When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on…
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The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
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I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures…
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I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia.…
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So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of…
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I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American…
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But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every…
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When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is…
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After my last audition for 'Game of Thrones,' they said, 'Congratulations, princess.' I was like, 'Bye-bye, call centre.'
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The artist's role is to do what is honest for them. So if you're in New York and everyone is…
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I started as a fourth-line fighter, went to being a third-line centre, then a second-line winger and a first-line centre.…
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All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems…
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But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to…
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Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find?…
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