"I'm not sure where I'm from! I was……" — Taiye Selasi
"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 in Ghana. I grew up in Boston."
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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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So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of…
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More Arabia Quotes
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If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps…
— John Bolton
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It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the…
— Barbara Boxer
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The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization…
— Barbara Boxer
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Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control…
— James Buchan
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Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
— James Buchan
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The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia…
— James Buchan
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I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!
— William Shakespeare
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Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all…
— John William Draper
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It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how…
— Annie Besant
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I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the…
— Samuel Marinus Zwemer
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