6 Quotes & Sayings By Peter Akinti

Peter Akinti is a writer, actor and producer living in Los Angeles. He has written and produced for NCIS: Los Angeles and The Deep End. He also co-hosts the podcast "New Negroes," which is produced by Buzzfeed. Peter is the author of the 2016 New York Times bestseller "The Boy in the Moon." His work has been featured in The New Yorker, Time Magazine, Vogue and The New York Times.

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Like two old philosophers, Ashvin and James spoke of the ruin of their lives, their unfulfilled needs, their unanswered prayers and ultimately they were seduced by the phantom call to death by suicide its science, its poetry, its violence, its art. Peter Akinti
All you could do was hope for silence, for still...
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All you could do was hope for silence, for still air. Peter Akinti
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Life was complicated, I thought. Not just the living but dealing with the realities and the instinct for order that other people have, that I didn't always grasp. Peter Akinti
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He didn't speak much but the little he said kept me busy. Peter Akinti
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Strange that, the way happiness only works in retrospect. Peter Akinti