Quotes by Chris Abani

Chris Abani

All my characters exist in risk, in the places we are either too afraid to go to, or have enough privilege not to have to, but whatever the reason, these characters I fashion go before us and come back transformed for us. For me, at least.

Character

Fashion

Risk

All power within the microcosm of my world was held and wielded by people who look like me. Plus, I think Nigerians all have this sense that they are better than everyone, including white people. So I have the privilege of a certain distance. It may just be that. So in a sense, I can’t claim that as any ability that I have, simply a matter of circumstance.

Distance

Thinking

White

Anything a man can do, I can fix.

Can Do

I Can

Men

As with much of the world’s problems, they become public–or much more of interest–the moment they begin to impact the West.

Impact

West

World

Before you speak, my friend, remember, a spiritual man contain his anger. Angry words are like slap in de face.

Anger

Men

Spiritual

Elvis, stop dat! You know it is taboo to whistle at night. You will attract a spirit.

Night

Spirit

Taboo

Every successful artist comes from a family – parents or siblings or both – who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous and difficult path of the artist.

Artist

Sibling

Successful

Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can be approached in fiction than in fact. There are risks for the reader, because after reading certain books you find you have changed irreversibly. There are risks for writers: in China, now, and Ethiopia and other countries right now, writers face real persecution.

Book

Country

Real

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life.

Book

Fiction

Narrative

Fire and Water are archetypes, the split sides of consciousness; one aware, the other, not. The two parts of us that desire synthesis, yet resist it: the self and the shadow. But they are also the element of chance, of the random roll of dice.

Fire

Self

Two

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Agents

Anger

Art

Artist

Believe

Body

Book

Bookstores

Brother

Can Do

Character

Cities

Country

Creative

Different

Distance

Fall

Fashion

Fiction

Fire

Forests

Fun

Groups

Heart

Hero

Historical

Holocaust

Hunting

I Can

Ideas

Identity

Imagination

Impact

Inspiration

Internet

Kindness

Love Is

Mean

Men

Mom

Motivation

Mystery

Narrative

Night

Nonfiction

Ordinary

Other Cultures

Political

Powerful

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Quotes by Chris Abani

Chris Abani

All my characters exist in risk, in the places we are either too afraid to go to, or have enough privilege not to have to, but whatever the reason, these characters I fashion go before us and come back transformed for us. For me, at least.

Anything a man can do, I can fix.

As with much of the world’s problems, they become public–or much more of interest–the moment they begin to impact the West.

Before you speak, my friend, remember, a spiritual man contain his anger. Angry words are like slap in de face.

Elvis, stop dat! You know it is taboo to whistle at night. You will attract a spirit.

Every successful artist comes from a family – parents or siblings or both – who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous and difficult path of the artist.

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life.

Fire and Water are archetypes, the split sides of consciousness; one aware, the other, not. The two parts of us that desire synthesis, yet resist it: the self and the shadow. But they are also the element of chance, of the random roll of dice.

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