WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 28 Oct 2026 05:57:18 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Abani, Chris – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Abani, Chris -- “Chris Abani muses on humanity,” TED Africa Conference (2008) https://wist.info/abani-chris/23838/ https://wist.info/abani-chris/23838/#respond Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:49:07 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=23838 What I’ve come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South Africa they have a phrase called ubuntu. Ubuntu comes out of a philosophy that says, the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me.


Chris Abani (b. 1966) Nigerian author.
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