Black white 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