“He had discovered that grief did not dim with time; it was instead a volatile state of being.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“He spent too much time mourning what could have been and questioning what should be.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I sort of consider myself a Nigerian who spends a lot of time in the U.S. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s time to just scrap the word “racist.” Find something new. Like Racial Disorder Syndrome. And we could have different categories… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“He turned to her and said, “About time,” when the train finally creaked in, with the familiarity strangers adopt with each other… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“But she was uncomfortable with what the professors called 'participation,' and did not see why it should be part of the final… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Red was the blood of the siblings massacred in the North, black was for mourning them, green was for the prosperity Biafra… — 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
“he was sure that she, with a little more time and a little more wisdom, would come to accept that the novels… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I think the history of western feminism is one that is fraught with racism, and I think it's important to acknowledge that… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Many girls spend too much time trying to be “nice” to people who do them harm. Many girls think of the “feelings”… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I look young. I heard this said so often that it became irritating. I once worked as a babysitter for a woman… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Grace would ponder this story for a long time, with great sadness, and it would cause her to make a clear link… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“...she was uncomfortable with what the professors called "participation," and did not see why it should be part of the final grade;… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“SCHOOL IN AMERICA was easy, assignments sent in by e-mail, classrooms air-conditioned, professors willing to give makeup tests. But she was uncomfortable… — 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
“are Third Worlders and Third Worlders are forward-looking, we like things to be new, because our best is still ahead, while in… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
There are people who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the… — 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
