"Is love this misguided need to have you……" — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?"
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111 Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
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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'.…
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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…
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At some point I was a HappyAfricanFeminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and who wears…
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How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on…
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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…
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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…
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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants;…
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On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off…
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It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appreciate the little…
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I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a…
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An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
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Being engaged in some way for the good of the community, whatever that community, is a factor in a meaningful…
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In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult…
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The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself…
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...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation,…
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Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and…
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