"Race doesn't really exist for you because it……" — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice."
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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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The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing…
— Eli Broad
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I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on…
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Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes,…
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Josh wanted to be the one to break the color barrier. When the Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson he knew it…
— Unknown Author
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When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We…
— Brian Day
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What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words,…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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When the Saracens came to attack him, they threw Greek fire onto the barrier he had made; and the fire…
— Jean de Joinville
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We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as…
— Margaret Fuller
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You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and…
— Robert Waterman McChesney
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Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse…
— Amy Goodman
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Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be…
— Rajneesh
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Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my…
— C.S. Lewis
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