Chris Abani Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• If you want to know about Africa, read our literature - and not just 'Things Fall Apart,' because that would be like saying, 'I've read 'Gone with the Wind' and so I know everything about America.'

  Chris Abani

  Motivation, Fall, Inspiration

  "Telling stories from Africa". Talk at TED conference, www.ted.com. June, 2007.

• You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

  Chris Abani

  Darkness, Style, Literature

  Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. March 22, 2014.

• Literature is an aspect of story and story is all that exists to make sense of reality. War is a story. Now you begin to see how powerful story is because it informs our worldview and our every action, our every justification is a story. So how can story not be truly transformative? I've seen it happen in real ways, not in sentimental ways or in the jargon of New Age liberal ideology.

  Chris Abani

  Powerful, Real, War

  "The Rumpus Interview With Chris Abani". Interview with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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