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The Red Cross irritated Ugwu; the least they could do was ask Biafrans their preferred foods rather than sending so much bland flour. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

You know, I don't think of myself as anything like a 'global citizen' or anything of the sort. I am just a Nigerian who's comfortable in other places. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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? — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Whenever she felt besieged by doubts, she would think of herself as standing valiantly alone, as almost heroic, so as to squash her uncertainty. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

smiling a smile full of things restrained — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Boys and girls are undeniably different biologically, but socialization exaggerates the differences. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When Philip complained about the French couple building a house next to his in Cornwall, Emenike asked, 'Are they between you and the sunset? — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

To have money, it seemed, was to be consumed by money. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Her insecurity, so great and so ordinary, silenced him. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Perhaps he was not a true writer after all. He had read somewhere that, for true writers, nothing was more important than their art, not even love. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If we keep seeing only men as heads of corporations, it starts to seem "natural" that only men should be heads of corporations. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I was stained by failure. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Ma? I think you have the spirit of husband-repelling. You are too hard, ma, you will not find a husband. But my pastor can destroy that spirit. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

You can have ambition
But not too much
You should aim to be successful
But not too successful
Otherwise you will threaten the man — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Being a feminist is like being pregnant. You either are or you are not. You either believe in the full equality of men and women or you do not. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

...real deep romantic love, the kind that twists you and wrings you out and makes you breathe through the nostrils of your beloved. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If the sun refuses to rise we will make it rise — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There was something immodest about her modesty: it announced itself. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Tell Chizalum that women actually don't need to be championed and revered; they just need to be treated as equal human beings. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

she always chose peace over truth, — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

loping, comfortable gait pulled my eyes and held them. I turned and dashed into the flat. I could see the front yard — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie