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When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.

Taiye Selasi
Emotional, Long, Flow
"Afropolitan Author Talks Fractured Family Ties in ‘Ghana Must Go’". Interview with Patrice Peck, www.ebony.com. May 2, 2013.
When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional