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....

A little black child fighting in her sleep against an opponent she couldn't name come morning because....

Prayer was not a sacred or holy thing. It was not spoken plainly, in Twi or English. It need not be performed....

We someone does wrong, whether it is you or me, whether it is mother or father, whether it is the Gold....

No one forgets that they were once captive, even if they are now free.

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.

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.

We are all weak most of the time,' she said finally. 'Look at the baby. Born to his mother, he learns....