Barriers Quote by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“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

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

“Because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was the most important attribute for survival; the physically stronger person was…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

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

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

“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

“I discovered race in America and it fascinated me.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“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

“They have the kinds of things we can eat.' An unease crept up on Ifemelu. She was comfortable here, and she wished she were…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

“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