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… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Ma? I think you have the spirit of husband-repelling. You are too hard, ma, you will not find a husband. But my… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“If we ran Nigeria like this cell," he said, "we would have no problems in this country. Things are so organized. Our… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“You could have just said Ngozi is your tribal name and Ifemelu is your jungle name and throw in one more as… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
If I had not grown up in Nigeria- and if all I knew of Africa were of popular images- I too would… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Lagos is a metropolis of almost twenty million people, with more energy than London, more entrepreneurial spirit than New York, and so… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
