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

• 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

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

  

  Sam Walton
  • Way
  • Wisdom
  • Ignore

• Chinese people age overnight.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Age
  • Chinese

• 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

• 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

• You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Happy
  • Future
  • Husband

• I don't want to lose what I've won.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Want
  • Lose
  • Won

• During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.

  

  Rachel Swirsky
  • Water
  • First
  • Existence

• Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Mom

• I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Great
  • Give
  • Direction

• Most of my influences are from the past.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Past
  • Influences

• 'Abu Ghraib is unbelievable in the innocent times of 1961. That we would torture people that way and on the instructions of the President of the United States and his highest legal advisers, torture is okay, they said. Go for it, fellas. If we can't renounce that and remove it from office, then the Constitution doesn't work anymore.'

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • People
  • Work
  • Innocent

• I used to not be confident. My father certainly didn't add to my confidence. When I was 17 or 18, I was voted the most beautiful girl in England by the association of press photographers. When they called Daddy for a comment, he said, 'I'm amazed. She's a nice looking girl, but nothing special.'

  

  Joan Collins
  • Father
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Together
  • Beautiful
  • Moments

• 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