"Our histories cling to us. We are shaped……" — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from."
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111 Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has 111 quotes on this site.
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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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More Cling Quotes
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one of 509 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is…
— James A. Baldwin
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Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.
— Dirk Benedict
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Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going…
— Sonny Bono
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We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of…
— Johannes Brahms
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It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And…
— Gabriel Byrne
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One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of…
— Diablo Cody
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Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always…
— Seneca the Younger
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Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and…
— Emile Durkheim
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Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling
— Augustus Toplady
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Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and…
— William Osler
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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence;…
— Zhuangzi
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In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.
— Elias Canetti
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