"Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper……" — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal to one dead white person."
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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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I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me…
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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…
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If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never…
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If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.
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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything…
— Charles Kettering
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We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.
— Burt Rutan
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There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since,…
— Flannery O'Connor
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It is false to speak of realisation. What is there to realise? The real is as it is always. We…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently.
— Shigeru Ban
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You cannot bring anything new into your life until you are grateful for what you have now.
— Michael Beckwith
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My diary entries during this period constantly refer to the importance of learning how to take criticism. If you shut…
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