This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be.… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
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 Image
There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied -… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
All over the world, girls are raised to be make themselves likeable, to twist themselves into shapes that suit other people. Please… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
There were people thrice her size on the Trenton platform and she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a… — 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
