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There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.

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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.

Childhood, Oxford, Play, Plays, Writing, Yale
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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.

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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.

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