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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

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

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

Brought with it amorphous longings, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, — 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

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

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

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

My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos. — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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

When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy. — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

He felt a hollow space between himself and the person he was supposed to be. — 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

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

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

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria. — 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

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

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

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

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

A quickening inside her, a dawning. She realized, quite suddenly, that she wanted to breathe the same air as Obinze. — 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

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Is Not An Economist, She Is A Demographer — Tam David-West

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

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

layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her. She — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

For me, feminism is always contextual. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

They looked at the world with an impractical, luminous earnestness that moved her, but never convinced her. — 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

I just want to be regular. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

They will always be doomed to supermarkets like this. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I was stained by failure. — 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

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

America's tribalisms - race, ideology, and region - became clear. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

To be a child of the Third World is to be aware of the many different constituencies you have and how honesty and truth must always depend on context. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A book did not qualify as literature unless it had polysyllabic words and incomprehensible passages. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy. — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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

And, in the pride in her eyes, he saw a shinier, better version of himself. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there. — 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

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

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

He spent too much time mourning what could have been and questioning what should be. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Olanna felt the slow sadness of missing a person who was still there. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When it comes to doing my job, I keep my ego in my handbag. — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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

Lots of liberal white folks are looking for black friends. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Ifemelu was looking forward to being away from home, to the independence of owning her own time. — 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

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

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

I like politics and history and am happiest when having a good argument about ideas. — 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

Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics. — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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

Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality. — 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

I'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me. — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I discovered race in America and it fascinated me. — 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