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Chris Abani Quotes

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: nigerian
Birth: December 27, 1966

Topics

Opportunity Slow You Down Privilege

As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey.

Beginning People Reading Better New

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don't.

Emotions Everyone Just Appears

I'm a woman who's been in a man's sport since the age of 15, and to see people finally seeing what I saw right from the start, that female fighters are just as good 'pound-for-pound' as our male counterparts.

Good Age Woman Man People Start

There's nobody that has the skillset that I have.

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

Nature Violence Conformity Blindly

By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.

Confidence You Wrong Way Right

I would work until I got stuck, and I would put it down and pick up something else. I might be able to take a 20-minute nap and get to work again. That way, I was able to work about 10 hours a day... It was important to me to work every day. I managed to work on Christmas day, just to be able to say I worked 365 days a year.

Work Day Me Year Every Day Down

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

Opportunity Choose Choice Because

The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.

Me Theatre Thought Doing Early Get

No matter how I might feel about myself or my self-image, there is still a part of me that wants to fight to the end.

Myself Fight Me End Feel Matter

I knew I wanted to be a singer from the age of five. I've been lucky to be so single-minded - some of my friends still don't know what they want to do, and they're finding it hard. There are home videos of me singing and taking centre stage at family parties when I'm about three.

Family Home Age Me Singing Friends

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Time Beginning Believe You Will

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