Sunil Yapa Quotes

Sunil Yapa is a Sri Lankan American fiction writer and novelist. Yapa won the 2010 Hyphen Asian American Short Story Contest for his short story, "Pilgrims (What is Lost and You Cannot Regain)," which is also published in the Fall 2010 issue of Hyphen, Issue No. 21, the "New Legacy Issue." His debut novel, Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist (2016) was released on January 12, 2016 by Lee Boudreaux Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company.

I consider myself a brown American or a man of color before I would say Sri Lankan, to be honest. I didn't grow up there. There was a pretty brutal civil war there from 1983 until 2009. So we weren't able to go back very much. I've gone back as an adult. But I grew up in Pennsylvania.

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The ultimate social law, the law of respect. In some ways, a large offense done with respect was more easily overlooked than a small offense done with disrespect.

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- Law
- Respect
- Social

One of the important things for me is that my father is from Sri Lanka. But even more importantly, he was a consultant for the World Bank.

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- Father
- Bank
- Consultant
Doing something, he had discovered, anything, however small, that contributed to your meaningfulness of self and surroundings—well, that was the trick. That was the trick to not feel like shit.

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- Feel
- Discovered
- Trick
It's not like being a writer is a very lucrative career, but you know, you just know when you've found what you're really meant to do.

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- Career
- Writer
- Meant
Poverty is just a word. I mean, how do you dismantle capitalism? It's through small actions. It's through breaking down poverty as a lived experience of not enough food, of your health not being good. So those are things that we can actually work on without ever having to call a politician.

Sunil Yapa
I think we sometimes forget that we have so many other places to create change. My dad taught me this, but the political is one spot to make change. But so is writing a book.

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- Writing
- Change
- Places
What is the function of the heart, if not to convince the blood to stay moving with the limits where it belongs, to stay at home.

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- Heart
- Home
- Function

Tina Fey is my hero. Some of the most brilliant people don't come off as brilliant.

Sunil Yapa
- People
- Hero
- Brilliant
Because how deep the darkness of the heart which longs for control.

Sunil Yapa
- Heart
- Control
- Darkness