Always Quote by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Download Open image “There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Always Been Between Dissonance Nigeria Private Public Strange
I've been in Nigeria myself personally alone when elections have been going on and it was a bit ropey. — A. J. Odudu Copy Share Image
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I wish to note that the level of discourse in Nigeria is abysmally low, and, usually, garnished with character assassination. We allow our personal… — Dele Momodu Copy Share Image
“The instability and disorderliness we have in Nigeria today and Africa at large is totally due to the absence of this light.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Nigeria is every Nigerian's land. And until we learnt to respect each other, like dogs we will bark and bite each other. — Abbakhuwa Copy Share Image
It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world. — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
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“What I’ve noticed being here is that many English people are in awe of America but also deeply resent it,” Obinze added. “Perfectly true,”… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was the most important attribute for survival; the physically stronger person was more likely to lead. And men in general are physically stronger. (There are of course many exceptions.) Today, we live in a vastly diʃerent world. The person more qualiɹed to lead is not the physically stronger… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I think white women need to wake up and say, 'Not all women are white,' three times in front of the mirror. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are. If we have sons, we don't mind knowing about… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“It was not as if he did not know what living in Lagos could do to a woman married to a young and wealthy… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“They have the kinds of things we can eat.' An unease crept up on Ifemelu. She was comfortable here, and she wished she were not. She wished, too, that she were not so interested in this new restaurant, did not perk up, imagining fresh green salads and steamed still-firm vegetables. She loved eating all the things she had missed while… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“But race is not biology; race is sociology. Race is not genotype; race is phenotype. Race matters because of racism. And racism is absurd… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
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There is something magical about being able to feel somebody. And that is something that has always moved me with music. — Maria Brink Copy Share Image
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It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image