Author: 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

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

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.

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.

- Taiye Selasi

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

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