Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

“We also need to question the idea of marriage as a prize to women, because that is the basis of these absurd…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“The knowledge of cooking does not come pre-installed in a vagina. Cooking is learned. Cooking – domestic work in general – is…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“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

Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“These Nigerians have been raised to think of women as inherently guilty. And they have been raised to expect so little of…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“but it was the commercials that captivated her. She ached for the lives they showed, lives full of bliss, where all problems…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

He was already looking at their relationship through the lens of the past tense. It puzzled her, the ability of romantic love…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

From the very beginning, I think it's been quite clear that there's no way I could possibly say that trans women are…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie