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 novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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.
So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.
The summer I finished my first novel Ghana Must Go, I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lomé to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.
I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings.
Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.
When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.
I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the world.
They were doers and thinkers and lovers and seekers and givers, but dreamers, most dangerously of all.