What distinguishes [Afropolitans] is a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that me…

- Taiye Selasi

How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept?

- Taiye Selasi

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 tha…

- Taiye Selasi

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

- Taiye Selasi

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 thi…

- Taiye Selasi

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

- 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 inte…

- Taiye Selasi

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

I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings.

- Taiye Selasi