Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Famous Quotes & Sayings
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You make me shy," he said.
"Are you serious? Because you make me shy."
"I don't believe anything makes you shy," he said.
"Are you serious? Because you make me shy."
"I don't believe anything makes you shy," he said.
They had both wanted it to happen and they both wished it had not; what mattered now was that nobody else should ever know.
course it was angry. Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry.
Don't see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery?
How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.
The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody said.
She had always liked this image of herself as too much trouble, as different, and she sometimes thought of it as a carapace that kept her safe.
The trick was to understand America, to know that America was give-and-take. You gave up a lot but you gained a lot, too.
Military men would always overthrow one another, because they could, because they were all power drunk.
Love is the most important. The most necessary human emotion. Not just romantic love. Love. The ability of human beings to connect.
He looked people in the eye not because he was interested in them but because he knew it made them feel that he was interested in them
She did not understand grunge, the idea of looking shabby because you could afford not to be shabby; it mocked true shabbiness.
It's strange how I have felt, with every major event that has occurred in my life, that you were the only person who would understand.
I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.
Boys and girls are undeniably different biologically, but socialization exaggerates the differences.
How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they're told, how many stories are told - are really dependent on power.
The problem with stereotypes is not because they are untrue, its because they are incomplete; they make one story, the only story
The most unforgettable dinner parties happened when guests said unexpected, and potentially offensive, things. The
After work, she wandered around the center of Baltimore, aimlessly, interested in nothing. Was this what the novelists meant by ennui?
I don't want to be a sweetheart. I want to be the fucking love of your life, Curt said with a force that startled her.
she thought that the romance novelists were wrong and it was men, not women, who were the true romantics.
loping, comfortable gait pulled my eyes and held them. I turned and dashed into the flat. I could see the front yard
At some point I was a Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men and Who Likes to Wear Lip Gloss and High Heels for Herself and Not For Men.
What is the point of culture? Culture functions ultimately to ensure the preservation and continuity of a people.
Tell Chizalum that women actually don't need to be championed and revered; they just need to be treated as equal human beings.
Before, she would have said, "I know," that peculiar American expression that professed agreement rather than knowledge
He spoke so effortlessly, as if his mouth were a musical instrument that just let sound out when touched, when opened.
Yet such men do not need to imagine a male victim of crime as a brother or son in order to feel empathy.
We use the word "respect" to mean something a women shows a man, but not often something a man shows a woman.
Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.
Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they see them as relational rather than as individual equal humans.
She is one of those black people who want to be the only black person in the room, so any other black person is an immediate threat to her.
Your feminist premise should be: I matter. I matter equally. Not "if only." Not "as long as." I matter equally. Full stop.
You look like a black American was his ultimate compliment, which he told her when she wore a nice dress, or when her hair was done in large braids.
His mind had not changed at the same pace as his life, and he felt a hollow space between himself and the person he was supposed to be. He
They looked at the world with an impractical, luminous earnestness that moved her, but never convinced her.
That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out
But Nature is unfair to women. An act is done by two people, but if there are any consequences, one person carries it alone.
You were praised for humility by people because you did not make them feel any more lacking than they already did.
Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.
The late Kenyan Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said, the higher you go, the fewer women there are.
She was not curvy or big-boned; she was fat, it was the only word that felt true. And she had ignored, too, the cement in her soul.
And her joy would become a restless thing, flapping its wings inside her, as though looking for an opening to fly away.