America Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

17 America quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Adichie’s prose explores America through the lenses of culture, gender, and diaspora, delivering nuanced reflections that resonate across borders.

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“Quante altre persone erano diventate nere in America?”

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“Because this is America. You’re supposed to pretend that you don’t notice certain things.”

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In America, I feel black with all of the rubbish that comes with it.

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“You know America has a way of turning everything into an illness that needs medicine.”

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I like the U.S. and feel gratitude towards it.

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I didn't know I was even supposed to HAVE issues until I came to America

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I was tired of everyone saying that when you write about race in America, it has to be nuanced, it has to…

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There is, for me, as a black woman, as an African woman, a sense of possibility in America that I don't feel…

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I think I'm ridiculously fortunate. I consider myself a Nigerian - that's home; my sensibility is Nigerian. But I like America, and…

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Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or…

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“She recognized in Kelsey the nationalism of liberal Americans who copiously criticized America but did not like you to do so; they…

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“It felt strange to call them directly, to hear her father’s “Hello?” after the second ring, and when he heard her voice,…

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“What I’ve noticed being here is that many English people are in awe of America but also deeply resent it,” Obinze added.…

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“Young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled, Americans…

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“As they walked out of the store, Ifemelu said, “I was waiting for her to ask ‘Was it the one with two…

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Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off…

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In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in…

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I think white women need to wake up and say, 'Not all women are white,' three times in front of the mirror.

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“Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls,…

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“I discovered race in America and it fascinated me.”

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“It was not as if he did not know what living in Lagos could do to a woman married to a young and wealthy…

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“They have the kinds of things we can eat.' An unease crept up on Ifemelu. She was comfortable here, and she wished she were…

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If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not…

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“But race is not biology; race is sociology. Race is not genotype; race is phenotype. Race matters because of racism. And racism is absurd…

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I like the U.S. and feel gratitude towards it.

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I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.

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Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender…

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