GraceLand Quotes

“Listening to the clack clack of the pal fronds form a percussive background to the oboe throb of the sea, he dozed off. An hour later, he woke with a start and, standing up, dusted off the seat of his trousers. White sand, in fine glittering silicon chips, clung to him, catching the sun, turning him into a patchwork fabric of diamonds and ebony.”
― Chris Abani, GraceLand

“He knew that scar, that pain, that shame, that degradation that no metaphor could contain, inscribing it on his body. And yet beyond that, he was that scar, carved by hate and smallness and fear onto the world's face. He and everyone like him, until the earth was aflame with scarred black men dying in trees of fire.”
― Chris Abani, GraceLand

“Elvis, take de passport. You know I myself no go ever go America,' Redemption said.
'Why?'
'Because dis na my home. I be area boy, alaye. I no go fit for States.”
― Chris Abani, GraceLand