When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.
What distinguishes [Afropolitans] is a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that me… - Taiye Selasi
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
How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept?
I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart. - Taiye Selasi
I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
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
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…
I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play. - Taiye Selasi
I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
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 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…
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
So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or inte…
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
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 wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings. - Taiye Selasi
I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings.
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