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 Image
I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Sometimes novels are considered 'important' in the way medicine is - they taste terrible and are difficult to get down your throat,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I think the Left doesn't know how to be a tribe in the way the Right does. The Left is very cannibalistic.… — 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… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied -… — 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
From the very beginning, I think it's been quite clear that there's no way I could possibly say that trans women are… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?"… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even… — 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
