Quotes by : Yaa Gyasi

This is the problem of history. We cannot know that which we were not there to see and hear and experience....

he knew in his body, even if he hadn’t yet put it together in his mind, that in America the worst thing....

Maybe he wouldn't end up the kind of man who needed to use his body for work. Maybe he'd be a new kind....

Evil is like a shadow. It follows you.

But if we do not like the person we have learned to be, should we just sit in front of our fufu, doing....

As long as he lived, it would always be a pleasure and a gift to fill his hands with the weight of her....

The white man's god is just like the white man. He thinks he is the only god, just like the white man....

We can’t go back to something we ain’t never been to in the first place. It ain’t ours anymore.....

History is Storytelling.

... as a reminder that a white man could still kill him for nothing.