...he did not want me to seek the whys, because there are some things that happen for which we can formulate no… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Everybody will have an opinion about what you should do, but what matters is what you want for yourself, and not what… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask… — 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 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
In particular I want to talk about natural black hair, and how it's not just hair. I mean, I'm interested in hair… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The idea that sex is something a woman gives a man, and she loses something when she does that, which again for… — 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
I look young. I heard this said so often that it became irritating. I once worked as a babysitter for a woman… — 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
