Chinelo Okparanta Quotes

• Shame is the power we give others to wield over us.

  Chinelo Okparanta

  Giving, Shame

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• When we live in our own privileged little bubble, it is convenient to pretend that all is well with the world, that everyone enjoys the same privileges that we do. We conveniently forget that there are others, sometimes our very own next-door neighbors, who suffer in ways that we do not.

  Chinelo Okparanta

  Suffering, World, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Happiness is like water. We’re always trying to grab onto it, but it’s always slipping between our fingers

  Chinelo Okparanta

  Water, Trying

  Chinelo Okparanta (2013). “Happiness, Like Water”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I realized that for many people attending a reading is like watching television at the end of a long day. They don't want to be sad but to laugh. Chances are they'll pick the sitcoms over the horror movies. So I learned that, while one's larger body of fiction can have quite a bit of sadness and conflict and tragedy in it , in a reading environment, the average audience member seems able to tolerate only a little bit of sadness. They'd much rather the reading be sexy, funny, and witty. Life is hard these days. There's more than enough sadness in the world, so I can't blame them.

  Chinelo Okparanta

  Sexy, Witty, Reading

  Source: therumpus.net

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