Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes About Racism

Quotes about: Racism

• Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Racism, Cookies, Reducing

  FaceBook post by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from Jun 05, 2016

• The only reason race matters is because of racism.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Race, Racism, Matter

• Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal to one dead white person.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Writing, Men, White Man

• In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in the movies about the civil rights era. Here's the thing: the manifestation of racism has changed but the language has not. So if you haven't lynched somebody then you can't be called a racist. If you're not a bloodsucking monster, then you can't be called a racist. Somebody has to be able to say that racists are not monsters.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Mean, Past, Rights

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