Alain Mabanckou Quotes & Sayings

I'm nothing, I'm everything,' he declared. 'The street is my mother. The sun is my father. What more should I ask of life? — Alain Mabanckou

it would be fairer to say I have traveled widely, without ever leaving my own native soil, I've traveled, one might say, through literature, each time I've opened a book the pages echoed with a noise like the dip of a paddle in midstream, and throughout my odyssey I never crossed a single border, and so never had to produce a passport, I'd just pick a destination at random, setting my prejudices firmly to one side, and be welcomed with open arms in places swarming with weird and wonderful characters — Alain Mabanckou