Chris Abani Quotes

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

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• After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Children
  • Guy
  • Learn

• As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

  

  Ja Rule
  • God
  • Religion
  • Feel

• Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Way
  • Wisdom
  • Ignore

• Chinese people age overnight.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Age
  • Chinese

• I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Game
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Time
  • Diversity
  • Evolution

• Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Win
  • Shopping
  • Election

• Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • People
  • Future
  • Change

• The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • World
  • Model
  • Impossible

• We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Development
  • Forgive
  • Early

• War is over if you want it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • War
  • Want
  • You

• The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.

  

  Babyface
  • People
  • Music
  • Lyrics

• As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Girl

• Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Movie
  • Way
  • Me

• The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Mind
  • American
  • Landscape

• If we assume we've arrived: we stop searching, we stop developing.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Stop

• I believe that we were meant to live as social creatures, to reach out and bless each other's lives.

  

  Richard Paul Evans
  • Believe
  • Creatures
  • Meant

• Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Truth
  • Wise
  • Speak

• Eve hugged her, hard. “It’s beautiful,” she said. “What happened to the old frosting?” Shane, sitting at the table, raised his hand. “Took one for the team.” “Jesus, you ate it? All of it?” “Nah.” He held up the bowl that was sitting in front of him. There was still about half a cup left. “Couldn’t finish it all.” Eve blinked and looked at Claire, who shrugged and said, “I always thought he was sweet.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • She
  • Beautiful

• If only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Beautiful
  • Treasures
  • Fragile

• Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

  

  Chris Abani
  • Beautiful
  • Poetry