“The myth of national identity and the vocabulary of coming from confuses us into placing ourselves into mutually elusive categories. In fact, all of us are multi – multi-local, multi-layered. To begin our conversations with and acknowledgment of this complexity brings us closer together, I think, not further apart. So the next time that I’m introduced, I’d love to hear the truth: Taiye Selasi is a human being, like everybody here. She isn’t a citizen of the world, but a citizen of worlds. She is a local of New York, Rome and Accra.” 

– Taije Selasi