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Teju Quotes & Sayings

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A mob is not, as is so often said, mindless. A mob is single-minded. — Teju Cole

One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces. — Teju Cole

Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable. — Teju Cole

The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops — Teju Cole

We owe ourselves our lives. — Teju Cole

You must have been determined, I said. Well, no, no, you don't think of it like that, she said, you just find what you must do, and you do it. — Teju Cole

Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing. — Teju Cole

I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking. — Teju Cole

The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege. — Teju Cole

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent. — Teju Cole

This fantasy about the disposability of black life is a constant in American history. — Teju Cole

Freud suggested that, in normal mourning, one internalizes the dead. The dead are fully assimilated into the living, a process he called introjection. — Teju Cole

I schooled in the Boston area. — Teju Cole

It is dangerous to live in a secure world. — Teju Cole

The details were saccharine, but they could not obscure the force and beauty of the painting. — Teju Cole

As he drank more and more, he became inebriated, and began to fashion damaged human beings. — Teju Cole

Everything interesting was in the books; it was books that made me aware of the variety of the world. — Teju Cole

Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting.
On the best days, all three. — Teju Cole

Swear you'd rather die than use 'literally' as an intensifier. — Teju Cole

The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm. — Teju Cole

I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours. — Teju Cole

I wouldn't have thought her young enough, as I had put her age somewhere north of forty. — Teju Cole

It will finally be broadcast on the national news, to outrage, and to an instant forgetting. — Teju Cole

Always say 'no pun intended' to draw attention to the intended pun. — Teju Cole

The completeness of a child is the most fragile and most powerful thing in the world. A child's confidence is the world's wonder. — Teju Cole

Concentration, the suspension of time, an unobtrusive wit. — Teju Cole

I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly. — Teju Cole

I made an effort to develop a mind of winter. — Teju Cole

Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob. — Teju Cole

Dignified refusal can only take you so far. Ask the Congolese. — Teju Cole

Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes. — Teju Cole

And it is these heavily armed and poorly paid men who are entrusted with the work of protecting the citizenry. — Teju Cole

What if everything that is to happen has already happened, and only the consequences are playing themselves out? — Teju Cole

The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten. — Teju Cole

Every day is for the thief, but one day is for the owner. — Teju Cole

People choose, he said, people choose, and they choose on behalf of others. — Teju Cole

Life's too short for anxious score-keeping — Teju Cole

Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories. — Teju Cole

Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.' — Teju Cole

I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones. — Teju Cole

Botanists call it an invasive species. But aren't we all? — Teju Cole

Things don't go away just because you choose to forget them. — Teju Cole

Originality is little more
than the fine blending of influences. — Teju Cole

It was I, no less solitary than he but having made the lesser use of the morning, who was to be pitied. — Teju Cole

His reverie took him out of the everyday, away from the blankets and the bag of urine. — Teju Cole

Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most. — Teju Cole

It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge. — Teju Cole

An old man with an ashen face and bulbous yellow eyes, — Teju Cole

As my friend and I talked, a homeless man sang just across the street from us, and we caught his voice in the snatches as the wind came over in gusts. — Teju Cole

There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner ... — Teju Cole