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Teju Cole Quotes: "Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three."

Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.



Teju Cole Quotes: "The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege."

The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.




Teju Cole Quotes: "The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening."

The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.



Teju Cole Quotes: "To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone."

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.




Teju Cole Quotes: "I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at."

I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at.



Teju Cole Quotes: "Things don't go away just because you choose to forget them."

Things don't go away just because you choose to forget them.



Teju Cole Quotes: "The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops"

The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops




Teju Cole Quotes: "The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten."

The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.



Teju Cole Quotes: "I'm not trying to be in your face and take a picture that is like a journalistic kind of image. I got interested in a kind of complicated, compiled, visual field."

I'm not trying to be in your face and take a picture that is like a journalistic kind of image. I got interested in a kind of complicated, compiled, visual field.



Teju Cole Quotes: "Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob."

Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob.



Teju Cole Quotes: "A MOB is not, as is so often said, mindless. A MOB is single-minded."

A MOB is not, as is so often said, mindless. A MOB is single-minded.



Teju Cole Quotes: "I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking."

I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking.




Teju Cole Quotes: "It is dangerous to live in a secure world."

It is dangerous to live in a secure world.



Teju Cole Quotes: "I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes."

I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes.



Teju Cole Quotes: "I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones."

I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.



Teju Cole Quotes: "Life's too short for anxious score-keeping"

Life's too short for anxious score-keeping



Teju Cole Quotes: "It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge."

It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.



Teju Cole Quotes: "Being Nigerian is a strong part of my identity. Being American is a strong part of my identity. And there are important parts of who I am that really have nothing to do with my national connection."

Being Nigerian is a strong part of my identity. Being American is a strong part of my identity. And there are important parts of who I am that really have nothing to do with my national connection.



Teju Cole Quotes: "So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail."

So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail.



Teju Cole Quotes: "Always say no pun intended to draw attention to the intended pun."

Always say no pun intended to draw attention to the intended pun.



Teju Cole Quotes: "Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes."

Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes.



Teju Cole Quotes: "It takes a few years to understand what we've lived through. At the moment, we're still sort of mired in the irrelevant bullshit. There isn't yet that public conversation about 9/11."

It takes a few years to understand what we've lived through. At the moment, we're still sort of mired in the irrelevant bullshit. There isn't yet that public conversation about 9/11.



Teju Cole Quotes: "The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm."

The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm.



Teju Cole Quotes: "I schooled in the Boston area."

I schooled in the Boston area.



Teju Cole Quotes: "Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories."

Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.



Teju Cole Quotes: "For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words."

For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.



Teju Cole Quotes: "The creative part of oneself finds its way out. In this case, I got interested particularly in the medium of Twitter and looked for ways to use it creatively."

The creative part of oneself finds its way out. In this case, I got interested particularly in the medium of Twitter and looked for ways to use it creatively.



Teju Cole Quotes: "The novelist can't successfully depict such horrifying reality. But she can, and must, try, to bear witness. There are many ways of doing this; the mode I prefer is indirect."

The novelist can't successfully depict such horrifying reality. But she can, and must, try, to bear witness. There are many ways of doing this; the mode I prefer is indirect.



Teju Cole Quotes: "I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours."

I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.



Teju Cole Quotes: "One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent."

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.



Teju Cole Quotes: "There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner."

There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner.



Teju Cole Quotes: "I am a novelist, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point."

I am a novelist, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.



Teju Cole Quotes: "...originality is little morethan the fine blending of influences."

...originality is little morethan the fine blending of influences.



Teju Cole Quotes: "There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first and foremost, could drink a Coke at whim."

There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first and foremost, could drink a Coke at whim.



Teju Cole Quotes: "As he drank more and more, he became inebriated, and began to fashion damaged human beings."

As he drank more and more, he became inebriated, and began to fashion damaged human beings.