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Race Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

14 Race quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s take on race is woven through personal narrative and cultural critique. In fourteen succinct lines, she captures the nuances of identity, offering a fresh, literary lens on how stories shape our understanding of difference.

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The only reason race matters is because of racism.

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“It doesn't have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There's a lot you can…

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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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When I go back home now, when I go back to Nigeria now, I get off the plane in Lagos and I…

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Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

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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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“The point of diversity workshops, or multicultural talks, was not to inspire any real change but to leave people feeling good about…

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Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly…

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“The only reason you say that race was not an issue is because you wish it was not. We all wish it…

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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…

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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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“They probably don't really like pale skin but they certainly like walking into a store without some security dude following them. Hating…

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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…

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“In that strained, still second when her eyes met Christina Tomas's before she took the forms, she shrank. She shrank like a…

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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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