As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do. Taiye Selasi
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  3. She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the world.

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