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!
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?
- 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
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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