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1. "Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is." ~ Chris Abani
2. "If I don't get at least one e-mail every ten minutes, I feel unloved. Even junk mail makes me feel seen. Sad, I know. Sigh." ~ Chris Abani
3. "That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out." ~ Chris Abani
4. "Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot." ~ Chris Abani
5. "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." ~ Chris Abani
6. "You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a complete stranger will unstitch you." ~ Chris Abani
7. "The wind is calling in a voice I remember" ~ Chris Abani
8. "We are hunting the demons that haunt others. We get a smell and off we go. And you know why, Sunil? You know why we are so good at hunting the demons of others? Because we are so good, gifted even, at stalking and evading our own. But all demons hunters think that they are really heroes, and you know what all heroes need?" ~ Chris Abani
9. "circles of hell. He hated to admit it, but Eugene had been right in his choice of Inferno, except their interpretations differed. Where Eugene saw only the internal battle of the privileged soul, Sunil saw the entire architecture and structures of racism and apartheid: three concentric circles of life and economics. Color-coded circles for easy understanding, whites at the heart, coloreds at the next remove, and finally, the blacks at the outermost circle; the closest to hell—the strange inverse sense of apartheid." ~ Chris Abani
10. "What you hear is not my voice. I have not spoken in three years: not since I left boot camp. It has been three years of a senseless war, and though the reasons for it are clear, and though we will continue to fight until we are ordered to stop-and probably for a while after that-none of us can remember the hate that led us here. We are simply fighting to survive the war. It is a strange place to be at fifteen, bereft of hope and very nearly of your humanity. But that is where I am nonetheless." ~ Chris Abani
11. "Thoughts of Abigail filled her world. By all accounts she had bee a tall, thin, woman, whose eyes held a power beyond the black pools of er irises. Tall, thin, and dark, she, this Abigail, looked so much like the other that her father had named her the same She was more ghost than her mother, however, moving with the quality of light breathing though a house in which the only footprints in the dust were those of her dead mother. Even her laughter, at once wild and reigned in, was all Abigail." ~ Chris Abani
12. "There had been many such experiments when he worked in South Africa, in Vlakplaas, a notorious apartheid death camp." ~ Chris Abani
13. "He too, it seemed, had come to believe that he could somehow escape history. That it was possible, and even desirable, to live in a perpetual present." ~ Chris Abani
14. "as his mother told Grandma Marie, there are no words for some" ~ Chris Abani
15. "Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression-how long before the pot boiled over." ~ Chris Abani
16. "In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself." ~ Chris Abani
17. "Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?" ~ Chris Abani
18. "It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship." ~ Chris Abani
19. "I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don't write essays as often as I should." ~ Chris Abani
20. "I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience." ~ Chris Abani

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