Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“What I’ve noticed being here is that many English people are in awe of America but also deeply resent it,” Obinze added.…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

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

“Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“I discovered race in America and it fascinated me.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“It was not as if he did not know what living in Lagos could do to a woman married to a young…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“They have the kinds of things we can eat.' An unease crept up on Ifemelu. She was comfortable here, and she wished…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“But race is not biology; race is sociology. Race is not genotype; race is phenotype. Race matters because of racism. And racism…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I like the U.S. and feel gratitude towards it.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Aokpe will always be special because it was the reason Kambili and Jaja first came to Nsukka.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“he was sure that she, with a little more time and a little more wisdom, would come to accept that the novels…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Afterwards they would return to America to fight on the Internet over their mythologies of home, because home was now a blurred…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“You don’t even have to love your job; you can merely love what your job does for you - the confidence and…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“If you’re telling a non-black person about something racist that happened to you, make sure you are not bitter. Don’t complain. Be…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“I sat at my bedroom window after I changed; the cashew tree was so close I could reach out and pluck a…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Lots of liberal white folks are looking for black friends.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Life was a struggle with ourselves more than with a spear-wielding Satan; that belief was a choice for our conscience always to…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie