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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s storytelling illuminates personal and cultural identity with clarity and compassion. Fifteen pieces offer a vivid look at the forces that shape who we become.

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Stories matter. Many stories matter.

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When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.

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

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How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.

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Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that…

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Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.”

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I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

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I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external,…

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The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They…

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They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born…

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I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social…

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Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off…

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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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At about the age of seven … I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white…

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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…

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“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,”…

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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…

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“Because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was the most important attribute for survival; the physically stronger person was…

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To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once…

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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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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…

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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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