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Selasi Quotes & Sayings

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Your baby is crying, says the driver to Taiwo, the Ghanian way of saying your cell phone is ringing. — 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 named Ouagadougou. — Taiye Selasi

I was supposed to be powerless, and as a result they failed to see that I possessed claws. — Nenia Campbell

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. — Taiye Selasi

A word forgot to remember what to forget and every so often let the truth slip - RENEE C. NEBLETT, Snapshots — Taiye Selasi

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully. — Taiye Selasi

The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips. — Taiye Selasi

Not sunflowers, not roses, but rocks in patterned sand grow here. And bloom. - ROBERT HAYDEN, Approximations — Taiye Selasi

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford. — Taiye Selasi

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart. — Taiye Selasi

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen. — Taiye Selasi

If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything. — Annie Baker

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play. — Taiye Selasi

The little corpse like a less lucky Moses all wrapped up in palm frond, in — Taiye Selasi

We want freedom,'" I say. "'We want the power to determine the destiny of our black and oppressed communities.'" "Say — Angie Thomas

She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the world. — Taiye Selasi

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

I now know all shades of the color green, having spent 90 days staring at that green screen. I'll never forget that color, as long as I live. — Rob Letterman

He was bound inside this body, trapped, an airborne being caged. In — Taiye Selasi

As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own. — Taiye Selasi

HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket. — Ambrose Bierce

The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart. — Taiye Selasi

A Baba Yaga never breaks a promise. Legs, yes. Hearts, occasionally. But never a promise. — Deborah Blake

Sight is subjective. We learned that in class. — Taiye Selasi

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims. — Taiye Selasi

I already know what giving up feels like. I want to see what happens if I don't. — Neila Rey

I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones. — Taiye Selasi

The reduction of anguish to Hallmark-card hurt. The — Taiye Selasi

The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I shall gain glory or die. — Seamus Heaney

I've seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities. — Garry Kasparov

Even if every word was true, and from what you've said I think it is, it doesn't make it any less insensitive. — Jewel E. Ann

How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept? — Taiye Selasi