Taiye Selasi Quotations

Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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