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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Ifs” weave together personal insight and cultural nuance, showing how a few lines can illuminate larger truths.

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If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

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If the government doesn't fund education, which they often don't, students are going to stay home and not go to school. It…

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Culture does not make people - people make culture. So if it is in fact true that the full humanity of women…

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The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier…

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There are people who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the…

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I didn't want to be apologetic about my love story, and I think to be willing to write about love you have…

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We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are. If we have sons, we don't mind…

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I had people read it early on and, you know, well-meaning people said to me, you should take out the blogs. I…

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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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All over the world, girls are raised to be make themselves likeable, to twist themselves into shapes that suit other people. Please…

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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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