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Taiye Selasi
Taiye Selasi
Ghanaian Writer
African Everything Ghana Long Myself Writing
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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
Problem Incomplete Think About Perfectly Stereotypes Contemporary Read African The Problem With Literature Inaccurate Captures Recently
I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart. Taiye Selasi
Heart Mind Write Open Clear Essays Fiction
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
Life My Life Sister Defining Somehow Writer Part Know Without How Am Being Centre Who Including Twin
The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips. Taiye Selasi
Me Pain Excruciating Most Retreats Frequently Hips Yoga Thing
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
People Writing Madness Big Come Ideas Know Acceptable Genuinely Always Big Ideas Wondered Craft Often Just Where Flashes Form Stories Much Really Socially
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
Work Beautiful Home You Man Dark Darkness Walk Church Live Way See Minutes His Five Just Where Want Flat Rome Race Create Paint Uses
I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims. Taiye Selasi
Ambition Claims Write Announced Began Eight Publishing Four
The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart. Taiye Selasi
Heart Blank Blank Page Writer Open Himself Passport Page Presents
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
When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen. Taiye Selasi
Writing Matter Everything Remembering Leave Off Screen Screenplays Anything Anything And Everything Page Appear
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
Work Truth Myself Relationship Knowledge Woman Experience Free Young Kicked Find Seeking Writers Had True Stuff Understand Came Been Begin Artist Order Romantic Young Woman Actually Need Needed
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
Mother Father Ghana Arabia London Born Boston Sure Up Where Grew Lives Nigerian Saudi Saudi Arabia

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