When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't … - Taiye Selasi

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When I eat alone I feel like a seminarian being punished. I tried it for one week and I was not comfortable. Then I searched through Sacred Scripture for something saying I had to eat alone. I found nothing, so I gave it up and it's much better now.

Taiye Selasi

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

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

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

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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.

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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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God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

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Any anti-bullying scheme, initiative or policy which fails to mention accountability for the bullies is likely to meet with little, and often no, success

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People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.

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