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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

But Jesus looked at them and said, With men, it is impossible. But not with God. With God, all things are possible. — Mark 10 27

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

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school. — Gordon Ramsay

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

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

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

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

Even a thirsty man will not drink at the river where a crocodile waits. — Timothy G. Bax

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

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

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

There's no such thing as a free lunch, unless you have a coupon for a free lunch ... or someone gives you a lunch ... never mind. — John Adams

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

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

... the fisherman's daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder. — Yiannis Ritsos

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

I no longer see the world and its works as they before appeared to me. — Mary Shelley

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

Once you have a dream you've got somewhere closer to a reality. — Terry Pratchett

Never were we freer than under the German Occupation. — Jean-Paul Sartre

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