The shape the words end up taking are themselves the meaning of the words, they are retrospectively what … - Teju Cole

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Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the boss which must be changed?.

Teju Cole

The shape the words end up taking are themselves the meaning of the words, they are retrospectively what we meant to say. There's no way of knowing this until you register it in visible form. But the other side of this is that you do have some idea of where you are going.

Idea, Ideas, Knowing, Register, Shapes, Way

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Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer. I'm a writer who's been strongly influenced by European precedents. I'm a writer who feels very close to literary practice in India - which I go to quite often - and to writers over there.

African American, Long, Practice, Strongly, Writer

I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes.

Writing, Divorce, Plies, Pity, Dishes

I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at.

Empathy, Looks, Gaps, Look, Gap

It is dangerous to live in a secure world.

Dangerous, Live, Secure, World

Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and imagined that, were they ever to indulge in such speculation, the high-rises might seem to them like firs massed in a grove.

Sight, Sky, Indulge In, Grove, Across