I was tired of everyone saying that when you write about race in America, it has to be nuanced, it has to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“It doesn't have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There's a lot you can… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
When I go back home now, when I go back to Nigeria now, I get off the plane in Lagos and I… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice. — 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
“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
“But race is not biology; race is sociology. Race is not genotype; race is phenotype. Race matters because of racism. And racism… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“The point of diversity workshops, or multicultural talks, was not to inspire any real change but to leave people feeling good about… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“As they walked out of the store, Ifemelu said, “I was waiting for her to ask ‘Was it the one with two… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“They probably don't really like pale skin but they certainly like walking into a store without some security dude following them. Hating… — 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… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“In that strained, still second when her eyes met Christina Tomas's before she took the forms, she shrank. She shrank like a… — 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 more likely to lead. And men in general are physically stronger. (There are of course many exceptions.) Today, we live in a vastly diʃerent world. The person more qualiɹed to lead is not the physically stronger… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
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 not. She wished, too, that she were not so interested in this new restaurant, did not perk up, imagining fresh green salads and steamed still-firm vegetables. She loved eating all the things she had missed while… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
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
