"Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but……" — Chris Abani
"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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17 Quotes by Chris Abani
Chris Abani has 17 quotes on this site.
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My friend Ronald Gottesman says...that the cause of all our trouble is the belief in an essential, pure identity: religious,…
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What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who…
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If you want to know about Africa, read our literature - and not just 'Things Fall Apart,' because that would…
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In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting…
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People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes
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What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple…
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You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act…
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What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple…
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Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.
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That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never…
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My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All…
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My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people.…
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able…
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
— Matthew Arnold
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People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a…
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed…
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in…
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of…
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Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about…
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
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