"My search is always to find ways to……" — Chris Abani
"My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us."
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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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Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms…
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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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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize…
— Samuel Beckett
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more…
— H. L. Mencken
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Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their…
— Adam Sedgwick
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The gay marriage thing to me, I don't understand why it's so important for the secular progressives in this country,…
— Bill O'Reilly
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A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life,…
— Stephen Greenblatt
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The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish…
— George W. S. Trow
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The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten…
— John A. Keel
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Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of…
— Frank Crowninshield
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A chronicle is very different from history proper.
— Howard Nemerov
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Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But…
— Henning Mankell
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Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable…
— Mark Doty
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History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.
— Louis Fischer
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