Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes - Page 2

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• The only reason race matters is because of racism.

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  Race, Racism, Matter

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• Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

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  Men, Age, Our Society

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.16, Vintage

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• I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.

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  Home, Thinking, Back Home

  "I Left Home to Find Home". Interview with Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. March 06, 2005.

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• Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly what white privilege is, that you can say that. Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

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  Race, White Privilege, Choices

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• She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs.

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  Talking, Shoes, Complaining

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2009). “The Thing Around Your Neck”, p.86, Anchor

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• I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.

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  Want, Apologetic, Femininity

  "We should all be feminists". TEDxEuston, www.ted.com. December 2012.

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• Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

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  Stories, Ability, Persons

  "The danger of a single story". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July, 2009.

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• There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.

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  World, Way, Different

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• You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.

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  Inspiring, Writing, Mind

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008). “Half of a Yellow Sun”, p.210, Anchor

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• The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?

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  Tyrants, Reign, Weak

  FaceBook post by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from Aug 28, 2014

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• We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

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  Risk, Myopic, Carpet

  "In the Footsteps of Achebe: Enter Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie". Interview with Ike Anya, www.africanwriter.com. October 15, 2005.

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• I am interested in challenging the mainstream ideas of what is beautiful and what is acceptable.

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  Beautiful, Ideas, Challenges

  Interview with Kima Jones, therumpus.net. June 17, 2014.

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• The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality is difficult to fully define, but I always recognise it when I see it: it is different from honesty and more resilient than fact, something that exists not in the kind of fiction that explains but in the kind that shows.

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  Honesty, Emotional, Quality

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• Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.

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  Women, Rights, Expression

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.41, Vintage

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• The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.

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  Problem, Gender, Should

  "We Should All Be Feminists". Book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, July 29, 2014.

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• We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls 'You can have ambition, but not too much'.

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  Girl, Ambition, Mutual Support

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.15, Vintage

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• This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.

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  Love, Romantic, Miracle

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008). “Half of a Yellow Sun”, p.135, Anchor

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• There are people who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not crawl, once

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  Baby, Fall, Past

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• All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women.

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  Book, Men, Order

  "We Should All Be Feminists". Book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, July 29, 2014.

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• You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?' Aunty Ifeka said. 'Your life belongs to you and you alone.

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  Men, Said, Yellow Sun

  FaceBook post by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from Aug 18, 2011

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• How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.

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  Stories, Dependent

  "The danger of a single story". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July, 2009.

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• Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.

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  Couple, Watches, Sometimes

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 'My new novel is about love, race... and hair'" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2013.

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• I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.

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  Believe, Asking Questions, Sake

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Continental Divides". Interview with Joseph Klarl, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.

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• She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.

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  Self, Firsts, Affection

  FaceBook post by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from Aug 31, 2014

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• Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care.

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  America, Choices, Black

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.242, Anchor

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