"What I've come to learn is that the……" — Chris Abani
"What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South Africa they have a phrase called ubuntu. Ubuntu comes out of a philosophy that says, the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me."
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17 Quotes by Chris Abani
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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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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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Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
— David Byrne
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I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
— Noam Chomsky
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The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary…
— Richard Goldschmidt
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Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of…
— Mahnaz Afkhami
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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is…
— Cyril Connolly
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Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
— Gyorgy Konrad
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It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
— Okakura Kakuzo
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Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you…
— William J. Clinton
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We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our…
— Anne Roiphe
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Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold…
— Brenda Ueland
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We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our…
— Calvin Coolidge
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