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Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.
— 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
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
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
On the best days, all three. — 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
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
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
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
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
It was I, no less solitary than he but having made the lesser use of the morning, who was to be pitied.
— 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
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