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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has 111 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them…
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The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality…
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I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.
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Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
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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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At some point I was a HappyAfricanFeminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and who wears high heels…
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How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.
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I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.
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About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The…
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Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.
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Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.
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I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all…
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Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today…
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You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know…
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