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

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Source : Chris Abani (2005). “GraceLand: A Novel”, p.9, Macmillan

Chris Abani

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“An abuser can seem emotionally needy. You can get caught in a trap of catering to him, trying to fill a bottomless pit. But he's not so much needy as entitled, so no matter how much you give him, it will never be enough. He will just keep coming up with more demands because he believes his needs are your responsibility, until you feel drained down to nothing.”

Source : Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.57, Penguin
“But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?”
“There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If we use this ethic as a moral compass, then our rendezvous with reality can also become a rendezvous with opportunity.”
“The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.”
“A show needs time to find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air now.”
“If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.”
“Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon - all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.”
“I love people who have such passion for complete nonsense.”

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