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I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation. ”
Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life. ”
My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion. ”
I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life. ”
I grew up in southern Sudan, one of nine children. Our life was simple but very happy. ”
I don't have interest in life. Life has an interest in me. ”
To have hands, to have fingers, is weird. Real life is weird, to have fingers? ”
Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork. ”
All my life, I have never found a person who really loved this world. Every person hates the world, how he is. ”
Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic. ”