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

Your baby is crying, says the driver to Taiwo, the Ghanian way of saying your cell phone is ringing.

Taiye Selasi quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 quotes: I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

Taiye Selasi quotes: Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.

Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The reduction of anguish to Hallmark-card hurt. The

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

How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept?

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

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

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

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

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