Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that … - Taiye Selasi

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Christ cannot live His life today in this world without our mouth, without our eyes, without our going and coming, without our heart. When we love, it is Christ loving through us.

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.

Everything, Ghana, Human, Human Life, Parties, Party

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

Obliged, Release, World, Writer

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

Ask, Asks, Novelist, Novelists, Tell, Telling The Truth

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.

Ideas, People, Stories, Wondered, Writing

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

People, Literature, Individual, Greater, Somehow

What distinguishes [Afropolitans] is a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that mean most to them. Perhaps what most typifies the Afropolitan consciousness is the refusal to oversimplify; the effort to understand what is ailing in Africa alongside the desire to honour what is wonderful, unique. Rather than essentialising the geographical entity, we seek to comprehend the cultural complexity; to honour the intellectual and spiritual legacy; and to sustain our parents’ cultures.

Celebrate, Effort, Essentialising, Mean, Spiritual, Unique

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Rumi

People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another.

Blame, Inspirational, Look, People, Reflection

Henry David Thoreau

The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days by the church and the Sabbath-school, so that it seemed, before I read it, to be the yellowest book in the catalogue. Yet I early escaped from their meshes. It is hard to get the commentaries out of one's head and taste its true flavor. . . . It would be a poor story to be prejudiced against the Life of Christ because the book has been edited by Christians. In fact, I love this book rarely, though it is a sort of castle in the air to me, which I am permitted to dream.

Bible, Catalogue, Christian, Commentaries, Dream, Though

David Easton

You must find the passion, an unrelenting passion.

Passion, Unrelenting

Dan Chaon

It doesn't matter what you do. In the end, you are going to be judged, and all the times that you're not at your most dignified are the ones that will be recalled in all their vivid, heartbreaking detail. And then of course these things will be distorted and exaggerated and replayed over and over, until eventually they turn into the essence of you: your cartoon.

Essence, Cartoon, Heartbreaking, Detail, Recalled, Turn

Leon Joseph Suenens