"What we know about who we are comes……" — Chris Abani

"What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are."

— Chris Abani

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17 Quotes by Chris Abani

Chris Abani has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

My friend Ronald Gottesman says...that the cause of all our trouble is the belief in an essential, pure identity: religious,…
If you want to know about Africa, read our literature - and not just 'Things Fall Apart,' because that would…
Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms…
In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting…
People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple…
You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act…
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple…
Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.
That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never…
My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All…
My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people.…

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An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to… — John Ashcroft
My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I… — Jensen Ackles
The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles. — Michelle Bachelet
Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which… — Michele Bachmann
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. — Walter Bagehot
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell… — Henry Adams
Nobody wanted the 'Roseanne' show. I heard from agents that there was no interest in a show about a fat… — Roseanne Barr
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. — John Adams
Satan works through human agents. — Ezra Taft Benson
I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do… — David Bowie
Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their… — Danny Boyle
I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. — David Byrne

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