“Because this is America. You’re supposed to pretend that you don’t notice certain things.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
In America, I feel black with all of the rubbish that comes with it. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“You know America has a way of turning everything into an illness that needs medicine.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was even supposed to HAVE issues until I came to America — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
There is, for me, as a black woman, as an African woman, a sense of possibility in America that I don't feel… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I was tired of everyone saying that when you write about race in America, it has to be nuanced, it has to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I think I'm ridiculously fortunate. I consider myself a Nigerian - that's home; my sensibility is Nigerian. But I like America, and… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“What I’ve noticed being here is that many English people are in awe of America but also deeply resent it,” Obinze added.… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“She recognized in Kelsey the nationalism of liberal Americans who copiously criticized America but did not like you to do so; they… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“It felt strange to call them directly, to hear her father’s “Hello?” after the second ring, and when he heard her voice,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“As they walked out of the store, Ifemelu said, “I was waiting for her to ask ‘Was it the one with two… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled, Americans… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“What I’ve noticed being here is that many English people are in awe of America but also deeply resent it,” Obinze added. “Perfectly true,”… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
“Because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was the most important attribute for survival; the physically stronger person was… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
I think white women need to wake up and say, 'Not all women are white,' three times in front of the mirror. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are. If we have sons, we don't mind knowing about… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
“Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
“It was not as if he did not know what living in Lagos could do to a woman married to a young and wealthy… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
“They have the kinds of things we can eat.' An unease crept up on Ifemelu. She was comfortable here, and she wished she were… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
“But race is not biology; race is sociology. Race is not genotype; race is phenotype. Race matters because of racism. And racism is absurd… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
