"The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou."

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Source : "Taiye Selasi on discovering her pride in her African roots" by Taiye Selasi, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

Taiye Selasi

#Summer Quotes #Ghana Quotes #West Quotes

“Debate doesnâ€™t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new, something from a different angle, then there is some hope. ... People are suddenly gazing at something else and pausing for a moment. And for the duration of that gaze and pause, they are like reflectors of the totality of their own knowledge and/or ignorance. Thatâ€™s something poetry can do for you, it can entrance you for a moment above the pool of your own consciousness and your own possibilities.”
“Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health”
“The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.”

Source : "How Geena Davis became a champion for women on screen" by Alexandra Spring, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2017.
“When wild the head-wind beat, Thy sovereign Will commanding Bring them who dare to fly To a safe landing.”
“I don't give any gifts to the rich.”
“In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel”

Source : "Interview with Robert Klein, Barbara Kline, Linda Ellerbee, Richard Haass, Larry King's Children". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 19, 2005.
“It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.”
“There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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