36 Quotes by Taiye Selasi

As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

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

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

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

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

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

Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.

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

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