Taiye Selasi Quotes

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.

Taiye Selasi

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The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

Johann Georg Hamann

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You can't sustain a high level of intense activity with thousands of people forever. It has to be for a specific objective.

Jeremy Corbyn

PeopleYouHighForeverLevel

I was able to make many different kinds of movies. They enriched me on many different levels.

Andrew Lau

MeMoviesKindsDifferentMakeAble

There are 45 million children in Africa who are not in school. While other children are learning, exploring, and growing in the myriad ways that children were meant to grow, these children are trapped in a life of constant struggle. Without education, how can they be expected to escape such struggle? How can their children?

Ann Cotton

LifeEducationLearningChildren

A magician pulls a rabbit from a hat, and actors pull truth from fiction.

Mia Goth

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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

Ambrose Bierce

HypocrisyPolitenessMostAcceptable

It's really nice when the studio is behind what you're doing, because that's often not the case.

Sissy Spacek

I AmMeThingsWellJustWorse

The book shows Clinton in the presidency as a profile in growth.

Sidney Blumenthal

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The old handbook on writing is 'Write what you know.' I come from an autobiographical starting place almost all of the time, but it would be a mistake to presume that I'm not using fiction to extend the narrative.

Rodney Crowell

TimeMistakeWritingYouPlaceKnow

My high-school years were so mediocre - I moved out when I was 16 and started living with my girlfriend who was 10 years older. Apart from that, I was just a video nerd.

Jason Reitman

LivingYearsGirlfriendOutStarted

In Jiu-Jitsu, every instinct you have wants to do everything but relax or breathe when someone's attacking you, and learning that takes a long time. I think that's why a lot of people stop at blue belt because it's really hard to do. It's hard to take that next step. It took me a long time.

Clark Gregg

LearningTimeBlueStepMeRelax

I was a black singer with a white voice, a perfect pop voice.

Brenda Holloway

VoiceBlackPerfectWhiteSinger

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