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Taiye Selasi Quotes

Ghanaian - Writer | -

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

Heart Page Open Passport Blank Page

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.

Life I Am Sister My Life Know Being

I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete.

Think Literature Problem Stereotypes

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

Truth Myself Ask Tell Only Novelist

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

Heart Mind Write Open Fiction Clear

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

Live Words World Release Own Her

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

Pain Me Most Hips Yoga Excruciating

The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.

People Ideas Writing Madness Know

I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!

Work Home Live Beautiful Walk Man

That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.

Think You Run Beyond Painful Well

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.

Life Christmas Human Everything Full

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.

Politics People Literature Individual

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