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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

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 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

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

Taiye Selasi

I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

Taiye Selasi

Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide.

Taiye Selasi

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

Taiye Selasi

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

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 that being somehow at the centre.

Taiye Selasi