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Been Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- 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,…
- 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…
- Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would…
- The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new…
- Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can…
- Her blog was doing well, with thousands of unique visitors each month, and she was earning good speaking fees, and she had a fellowship at…
- ...there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of…
- Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.
- Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off and on in…
- I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.
- Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the most…
- There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour