Chris Abani Quotes
There is no living African writer who has not had to, or will not have to, contend with Achebe's work. We are either resisting him - stylistically, politically, or culturally - or we are writing toward him.
Quotes to Explore
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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America is huge.
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I'm a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that's very far off.
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I know I have a big, big head. Hats, a lot of times, do not fit me. What is the average head size? Maybe like 16 inches. From the center of my forehead around to other side might be a foot, give or take four inches.
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The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.
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Treat your life like a game.
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Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.
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There is no living African writer who has not had to, or will not have to, contend with Achebe's work. We are either resisting him - stylistically, politically, or culturally - or we are writing toward him.
