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
Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Honesty. And I just really think there's a fundamental friendship that needs to exist, whether it's a lover, whether it's a sister...there's… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye … I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of… — 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
I had people read it early on and, you know, well-meaning people said to me, you should take out the blogs. I… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I think my first general rule is that most of my experiences are not that interesting. It's usually other people's experiences. It's… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I think people are frightened of saying what they think, and I think that's a bad thing for society. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
When I'm in a good mood I like to cook. But I don't like saying it in public because I find myself… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
All over the world, girls are raised to be make themselves likeable, to twist themselves into shapes that suit other people. Please… — 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
I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people. — 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
