"...he did not want me to seek the……" — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"...he did not want me to seek the whys, because there are some things that happen for which we can formulate no whys, for which whys simply do not exist and, perhaps, are not necessary."
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111 Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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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I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.
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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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