“You know it was love at first sight for both of us," he said. "For both of us? Is it by force?… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“The only reason you say that race was not an issue is because you wish it was not. We all wish it… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“How was it possible to miss something you longer wanted? Blaine needed what she was unable to give and she needed what… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Love is the most important. The most necessary human emotion. Not just romantic love. Love. The ability of human beings to connect”.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“They ticked the boxes of a certain kind of enlightened, educated middle-classness, the love of dresses that were more interesting than pretty,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Teach her that to love is not only to give but also to take. This is important because we give girls subtle… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Papa sat down at the table and poured his tea from the china tea set with pink flowers on the edges. I… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Her blog was doing well, with thousands of unique visitors each month, and she was earning good speaking fees, and she had… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“There was something wrong with her. She did not know what it was but there was something wrong with her. A hunger,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“It puzzled her, the ability of romantic love to mutate, how quickly a loved one could become a stranger. Where did the… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“I think love is the most important thing in life. Whatever kind, however you define it, but I think of it generally… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be apologetic about my love story, and I think to be willing to write about love you have… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“There were emotions she wanted to hold in the palm of her hand that were simply no longer there.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“When Ifemelu met Obinze, she told Aunty Uju that she had met the love of her life, and Aunty Uju told her… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“How can a person claim to love you and yet want you to do things that suit only them? Udenna was like… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Why do I love him?...I don't think love has a reason...I think love comes first and then the reasons follow.” — 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
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