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

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Taiye Selasi

#Reading Quotes #Book Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.”
“I was doing everything I could think of to protect my husband and keep him alive.”
“When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.”
“Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.”
“When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.”
“Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to...”
“It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.”
“I appreciate the idea of allowing people to have their own private walk with God. To me, God is about love, not condemnation.”

Source : Clay Aiken (2004). “Learning to Sing”, W Publishing Group

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