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Thinking Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.
- Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.
- I think my first general rule is that most of my experiences are not that interesting. It's usually other people's experiences. It's not that entirely…
- 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 important to engage…
- I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.
- And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.
- There are people who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule…
- If I had not grown up in Nigeria- and if all I knew of Africa were of popular images- I too would think that africa…
- She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like…
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