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I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
How did they know when to laugh? What to laugh about?
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A life of clean lines
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much. Not
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It is one of the things she has come to love about America, the abundance of unreasonable hope.
— 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
To choose to write is to reject silence.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It is not hard," Ifemelu said firmly. "You are using the wrong comb." And she pulled the comb from Aisha's hand and put it down on the table.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The "male gaze," as a shaper of my life's choices, is largely incidental. Gender
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Grief was the celebration of love, those who could feel real grief were lucky to have loved.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Teach her that if you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
There was a feeling I wanted to feel that I did not feel.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
What if, in raising children, we focus on ability instead of gender? What if we focus on interest instead of gender?
— 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
He realized that what he wanted most of all, with her, was time.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I cannot control even the dreams that I have made.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The truth has become an insult.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.
— 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
Brought with it amorphous longings, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living,
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
One day, I will look up and all the people I know will be dead or abroad.
— 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
Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Their silence was full of stones. Ifemelu felt like apologizing, although she was not quite sure what she would be apologizing for.
— 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
that absurd idea of "men will be men," which means having a much lower standard for men. I
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Her insecurity, so great and so ordinary, silenced him.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her. She
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I can't believe it. My president is black like me. She read the text a few times, her eyes filling with tears. On
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they see them as relational rather than as individual equal humans.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A person who had to spread the cloak of religion over her own petty desires.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Michael's a good cat but he tries so hard to keep it real that he can seem full of negativity,
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Why do I love him? ... I don't think love has a reason ... I think love comes first and then the reasons follow.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
what I hope for Chizalum is this: that she will be full of opinions, and that her opinions will come from an informed, humane and broad-minded place.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A quickening inside her, a dawning. She realized, quite suddenly, that she wanted to breathe the same air as Obinze.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
They will always be doomed to supermarkets like this.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I just want to be regular.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
They looked at the world with an impractical, luminous earnestness that moved her, but never convinced her.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
But Nature is unfair to women. An act is done by two people, but if there are any consequences, one person carries it alone.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
For me, feminism is always contextual.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out
— 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
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
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
...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
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
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
she always chose peace over truth,
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
America's tribalisms - race, ideology, and region - became clear.
— 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
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
You can have ambitionBut not too much
You should aim to be successful
But not too successful
Otherwise you will threaten the man — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I was stained by failure.
— 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
Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Her bladder felt painfully, solidly full, as though it would burst and release not urine but the garbled prayers she was muttering.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
He spent too much time mourning what could have been and questioning what should be.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ifemelu was looking forward to being away from home, to the independence of owning her own time.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We use the word "respect" to mean something a women shows a man, but not often something a man shows a woman.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I discovered race in America and it fascinated me.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I like politics and history and am happiest when having a good argument about ideas.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ifemelu margined them when they traveled: they would collect unusual things and fill their homes with them, unpolished evidence of their polish.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Lots of liberal white folks are looking for black friends.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Olanna felt the slow sadness of missing a person who was still there.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
He felt a hollow space between himself and the person he was supposed to be.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
His was the coiled, urgent restlessness of a person who believed that fate had mistakenly allotted him a place below his true destiny.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Being defiant can be a good thing sometimes," Aunty Ifeoma said. "Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing when it is used right.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
And, in the pride in her eyes, he saw a shinier, better version of himself.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A book did not qualify as literature unless it had polysyllabic words and incomprehensible passages.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
