Way Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

14 Way quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's voice offers a fresh take on the idea of a 'Way,' blending cultural nuance with personal resolve. Though the set holds just fourteen lines, each feels like a clear, resonant statement.

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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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I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.

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Sometimes novels are considered 'important' in the way medicine is - they taste terrible and are difficult to get down your throat,…

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I think the Left doesn't know how to be a tribe in the way the Right does. The Left is very cannibalistic.…

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There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be…

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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…

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I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied -…

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In particular I want to talk about natural black hair, and how it's not just hair. I mean, I'm interested in hair…

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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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From the very beginning, I think it's been quite clear that there's no way I could possibly say that trans women are…

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My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've…

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I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first…

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Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?"…

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There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even…

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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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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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