Quotes by ghanaian authors

When I was growing up, I always liked playing football, and my mum always took me to football games. I owe her a lot. She was my pillar. She was the biggest influence on me. Michael Essien

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. Taiye Selasi

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

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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. Taiye Selasi

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

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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. Taiye Selasi

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! Taiye Selasi

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I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims. Taiye Selasi

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

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

Truth Myself Tell Only Beautifully Ask Novelist

As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do. Taiye Selasi

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You are amazing person with unique talents. Have faith in your abilities. Lailah Gifty Akita

Faith Ability Talents You Are Amazing