"Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons……" — Taiye Selasi
"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 worldwide."
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23 Quotes by Taiye Selasi
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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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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know…
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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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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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