All Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes
- It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity,… Africa
- The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality is difficult to… Define
- I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria. Columbia
- Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living. Creative
- There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich. Different Ways
- At some point I was a HappyAfricanFeminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and who wears high heels for herself but… Doe
- How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power. Dependent
- I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else. Everyone
- About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The late Kenyan Nobel… Female
- Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes. Believe
- Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better. Better
- I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness… All
- The higher you go, the fewer women there are. Fewer
- Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly what white privilege… Always Talk
- We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls 'You can have ambition, but not too much'. Ambition
- Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye … I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky… Achebe
- At about the age of seven … I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they… Age
- Culture does not make people - people make culture. So if it is in fact true that the full humanity of women is not our… Better
- Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it… Belonging
- If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need… Access
- Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.” Break
- The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are. Gender
- I like the U.S. and feel gratitude towards it. Feel
- The only reason race matters is because of racism. Matters
- The idea that sex is something a woman gives a man, and she loses something when she does that, which again for me is nonsense.… Boy
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