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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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Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly…
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White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.
— Peggy McIntosh
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As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had…
— Peggy McIntosh
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White Privilege is the other side of racism. Unless we name it, we are in danger of wallowing in guilt or moral…
— Paula Rothenberg
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White privilege is the other side of racism.
— Paula Rothenberg
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White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white.…
— Peggy McIntosh
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I want you to admit that there is such a thing as white privilege,
— Jon Stewart
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Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial…
— Tim Wise
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I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for…
— Eric Liu
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Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege.
— Jonathan Coleman
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