Chris Abani Quotes

I think that everyone has the power to make a change in the world.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

Trump is good for comedy but bad for the world.

Why do Angelina Jolie and Bono receive overwhelming attention for their work in Africa while Nwankwo Kanu or Dikembe Mutombo, Africans both, are hardly ever mentioned?

I realized that there's a big world, and really, the only way you can make a critical impact on something greater than your own little world is through technology.

We must not become perpetually distracted from the great challenges facing our country and the world.

The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all.

How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen?

The great challenge of the '90s... is to salvage and improve the UN and to develop it into an agency capable of meeting the wide range of serious problems that are inherent in a world that has become a single geographic unit.

stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!

When I decided to be a musician I was hoping that it would be one of my contributions in having a positive impact on the world. That's always what I wanted to do.

The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological - social - psychological - economic system. We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.

I think there's so many things happening, whether it's gender inequality or immigration, there's just so many issues happening around the world where not doing anything makes you guilty.

The world is waiting to hear from you.

Hundreds and thousands of young people around the world can break through and can make this a better world for all living things. Once young people know the problems and are empowered to act, they have great power to impact the world.

We are always impacting the world...through our presence, energy, interactions - what kind of impact are we having?

When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.

I'm certainly not ready to go changing the world overnight right now. I'm completely uninformed about a lot of our issues, a lot of the nation's issues, not just Indigenous issues.

I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.

Be sure that you make a difference in the world.

I kind of help solve world peace and world hunger. That's just kind of an average day off for me.

Educate yourself on what's going on around the world where children are dying. Educate yourself on what's going on in Africa.

To change the world you'll need a pen.

We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.

The world is a very troubled, very chaotic place. It's a very cold place. It's a very unjust and unfair place in many ways. [As a moviemaker] I have very limited ability to have an impact over all that.