"I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete."

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Source : "African Writer Helps Put Her Community On Media Map". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 20, 2011.

Taiye Selasi

#Thinking Quotes #Literature Quotes #Problem Quotes

“Deja vu is one of the weirdest things that happens to me. It boggles my mind.”
“And besides; the problem of land, at its worst, is a bye one; distribute the earth as you will, the principal question remains inexorable, Who is to dig it? Which of us, in brief word, is to do the hard and dirty work for the rest, and for what pay?”
“For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.”
“Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?”
“I like to address the fears of my culture. I believe it`s good to face the enemy, for the enemy is fear.”
“... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.”
“I don't get too upset or bent out of shape from things that go on on the field. But I think that you always want to try to keep it classy. You don't want to do any stupid fouls, and sometimes - sometimes the game gets to you; people react differently.”

Source : "This Pre-World Cup Interview with Carli Lloyd Shows Just How Awesomely Intense She Is". Interview with George Quraishi, www.slate.com. July 8, 2015.
“We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are separated from nature and life, the intellectual and moral discipline made use of to impose ready-made ideas upon them, beliefs which deprave and annihilate natural bent.”

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