Taiye Selasi

Taiye Selasi (born 2 November 1979 in London, England) is a British-American writer and photographer.

Taiye Selasi in 2013

Quotes

Ghana Must Go (2013)

• Loss is a notion. No more than a thought. Which one forms or one doesn’t. With words. Such that one cannot lose, nor ever say he has lost, what he does not permit to exist in his mind.

• She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the world.
  • Talking about disconnection, thought and sleep

• Death must take place in the heart to be believed in. After love dies man believes in his death.
  • Relationship between the hear, love and death

• Your baby is crying," says the driver to Taiwo, the Ghanaian way of saying your cell phone is ringing.
  • Humourous way of saying one's phone is ringing

• There was the one basic storyline, which everyone knew, with the few custom endings to choose now and again. Basic: humming grandmas and polycentric dancing and drinks made from tree sap and patriarchy.
  • Patriarchy

• They were doers and thinkers and lovers and seekers and givers, but dreamers, most dangerously of all. They were dreamer-women.Very dangerous women who looked at the world through their wide dreamer-eyes and saw it not as it was, "brutal, senseless," etc., but worse, as it might be or might yet become.
  • Thoughts about insatiable women