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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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If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not…
— Charlton Heston
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Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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I intend to talk about race during this election in the South because the Republicans have been talking about it since 1968…
— Howard Dean
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You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
— Brené Brown
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Here's the thing. When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it's all nonsense. There are no race relations.…
— Chris Rock
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Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it.…
— Anna Deavere Smith
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Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license…
— Sarah Silverman
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You know, you can talk about race, you can talk about sex, you can talk about your biopsy. But when you get…
— George Saunders
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I heard about the book and I said, 'Oh my god, I've got to read this book,' and I didn't know that…
— Viola Davis
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