Chris Abani Quotes

I Had Amazing Intellectual Privilege As A Kid. My Mom Taught Me To Read When I Was Two Or Three. When I Was Five, I Read And Wrote Well Enough To Do My Nine-year Older Brother's Homework In Exchange For Chocolate Or Cigarettes. By The Time I Was 10, I Was Reading Orwell, Tolstoy's 'War And Peace,' And The Koran. I Was Reading Comic Books, Too.

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