# Ghana Must Go

- Author: [Taiye Selasi](https://www.leafyquotes.com/taiye-selasi.md)
- Quotes: 6
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/taiye-selasi/ghana-must-go

## Quotes

> They were doers and thinkers and lovers and seekers and givers, but dreamers, most dangerously of all. They were dreamer-women.Very dangerous women who looked at the world through their wide dreamer-eyes and saw it not as it was, "brutal, senseless," etc., but worse, as it might be or might yet become.

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> She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the world.

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> Loss is a notion. No more than a thought. Which one forms or one doesn’t. With words. Such that one cannot lose, nor ever say he has lost, what he does not permit to exist in his mind.

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> Your baby is crying," says the driver to Taiwo, the Ghanaian way of saying your cell phone is ringing.

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> Death must take place in the heart to be believed in. After love dies man believes in his death.

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> There was the one basic storyline, which everyone knew, with the few custom endings to choose now and again. Basic: humming grandmas and polycentric dancing and drinks made from tree sap and patriarchy.

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