# Quote — Taiye Selasi, Ghana Must Go

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

- Author: [Taiye Selasi](https://www.leafyquotes.com/taiye-selasi.md)
- Book: [Ghana Must Go](https://www.leafyquotes.com/taiye-selasi/ghana-must-go.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Taiye_Selasi#Ghana_Must_Go_(2013)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/taiye-selasi/ghana-must-go/your-baby-is-crying

## More from this book

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/taiye-selasi/ghana-must-go/they-were-doers.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/taiye-selasi/ghana-must-go/she-sleeps-like.md)

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/taiye-selasi/ghana-must-go/loss-is-a-notion.md)