Your baby is crying," says the driver to Taiwo, the Ghanaian way of saying your cell phone is ringing. - Taiye Selasi

There was the one basic storyline, which everyone knew, with the few custom endings to choose now and again. Basic: humming grandmas and polycentric dancing and drinks made from tree sap and patriarchy.

Death must take place in the heart to be believed in. After love dies man believes in his death.

They were doers and thinkers and lovers and seekers and givers, but dreamers, most dangerously of all. They were dreamer-women.Very dangerous women who looked at the world through their wide dreamer-eyes and saw it not as it was, "brutal, senseless," etc., but worse, as it might be or might yet become.