Uwem Akpan Quotes

I don't believe in the art-for-art's-sake philosophy. With the raw material before me and the gifts within me, I did my best to celebrate the voices and intelligence and sweetness and dreams of the children in spite of their chaotic, outer worlds.

Uwem Akpan

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• I've never been a partier.

  

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• The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.

  

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• In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

  

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• You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.

  

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• Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

  

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• If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

  

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• But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

  

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• My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.

  

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• For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

  

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• I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

  

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• 'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?

  

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• Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.

  

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• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

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• I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

  

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• There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

  

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• I love being a part of Aqua Teen.

  

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• I hadn't planned on or expected to have a public dimension in my life.

  

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• The rest of my family are obsessed by 'The X Factor:' I'm intrigued by it, although its musical values are far away from mine, like a cup of tea with 400 lumps of sugar in it. There's something very strange about Simon Cowell's lips, isn't there?

  

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• I can only control what I can, which is what I'm able to do as an artist.

  

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  • Control

• I don't believe in the art-for-art's-sake philosophy. With the raw material before me and the gifts within me, I did my best to celebrate the voices and intelligence and sweetness and dreams of the children in spite of their chaotic, outer worlds.

  

  Uwem Akpan
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Art