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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “But she had not had a bold epiphany and there was no cause; it was simply that layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “Teach her to reject likeability. Her job is not to make herself likeable, her job is to be her full self, a self that is honest and aware of the equal humanity of other people.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “Gender and class are different. Poor men still have the privileges of being men, even if they do not have the privileges of being wealthy.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “Our world is full of men and women who do not like powerful women.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “Stories matter.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “At some point I was a HappyAfricanFeminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and who wears high heels for herself but not for men.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “Education is a priority! How can we resist exploitation if we don’t have the tools to understand exploitation?”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “Never speak of marriage as an achievement. Find ways to make clear to her that marriage is not an achievement, nor is it what she should aspire to. A marriage can be happy or unhappy, but it is not an achievement.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “Grief was the celebration of love, those who could feel real grief were lucky to have loved.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership. We.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “We teach girls shame. Close your legs. Cover yourself. We make them feel as though by being born female, they are already guilty of something. And so girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. Who silence themselves. Who cannot say what they truly think. Who have turned pretence into an art form.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “Sometimes life begins when the marriage ends.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, ‘You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful but not too successful, otherwise you will threaten the man. If you are the breadwinner in your relationship with a man, pretend that you are not, especially in.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “Look at you. You’re the kindest person I know. Look how beautiful you are. Why do you need so much outside of yourself? Why isn’t what you are enough?”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “She seemed so happy, so at peace, and I wondered how anybody around me could feel that way when liquid fire was raging inside me, when fear was mingling with hope and clutching itself around my ankles.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “A good education isn’t the same thing as making the whole damn world something to be explained!”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “These are little things but sometimes it’s the little things that sting the most.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “If the sun refuses to rise we will make it rise.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “Periods are normal and natural, and the human species would not be here if periods did not exist.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “Philadelphia had the musty scent of history. New Haven smelled of neglect. Baltimore smelled of brine, and Brooklyn of sun-warmed garbage. But Princeton had no smell.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “The white missionaries brought us their god,” Amaka was saying. “Which was the same color as them, worshiped in their language and packaged in the boxes they made. Now that we take their god back to them, shouldn’t we at least repackage it?”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “It was what Aunty Ifeoma did to my cousins, I realized then, setting higher and higher jumps for them in the way she talked to them, in what she expected of them. She did it all the time believing they would scale the rod. And they did. It was different for Jaja and me. We did not scale the rod because we believed we could, we scaled it because we were terrified that we couldn’t.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “Teach her to question language. Language is the repository of our prejudices, our beliefs, our assumptions.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “But race is not biology; race is sociology. Race is not genotype; race is phenotype. Race matters because of racism. And racism is absurd because it’s about how you look. Not about the blood you have. It’s about the shade of your skin and the shape of your nose and the kink of your hair. Booker.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “A man who would be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “My own definition is a feminist is a man or a woman who says, yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better. All of us, women and men, must do better.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “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 Quote: “I don’t think love as a reason. I think love comes first and then the reasons follow.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “There is so much that is still silent between Jaja and me. Perhaps we will talk more with time, or perhaps we never will be able to say it all, to clothe things in words, things that have long been naked.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “She wanted Azuka to learn the ways of these foreigners, since people ruled over others not because they were better people but because they had better guns;.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “We raise girls to see each other as competitors – not for jobs or accomplishments, which in my opinion can be a good thing – but for the attention of men.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “What if both boys and girls were raised not to link masculinity and money? What if their attitude was not “the boy has to pay,” but rather, “whoever has more should pay.” Of course, because of their historical advantage, it is mostly men who will have more today. But if we start raising children differently, then in fifty years, in a hundred years, boys will no longer have the pressure of proving their masculinity by material means. But.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “If we ran Nigeria like this cell,” he said, “we would have no problems in this country. Things are so organized. Our cell has a Chief called General Abacha and he has a second in command. Once you come in, you have to give them some money. If you don’t, you’re in trouble.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “She imagines the cocoa brown of Nnedi’s eyes lighting up, her lips moving quickly, explaining that riots do not happen in a vacuum, that religion and ethnicity are often politicized because the ruler is safe if the hungry ruled are killing one another.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “I cannot control even the dreams that I have made.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “He felt a hollow space between himself and the person he was supposed to be.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “They mimicked what Americans told them: You speak such good English. How bad is AIDS in your country? It’s so sad that people live on less than a dollar a day in Africa. And they themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was mockery born of longing, and of the heartbroken desire to see a place made whole again.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “You wanted to feel disdain, to show it as you brought his order, because white people who liked Africa too much and those who liked Africa too little were the same – condescending.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “There were people who were born with an inability to be tangled up in dark emotions, in complications, and Iloba was one of them. For such people, Obinze felt both admiration and boredom.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “Some people can take up too much space by simply being, that by existing, some people can stifle others.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “Beware the danger of what I call Feminism Lite. It is the idea of conditional female equality. Please reject this entirely. It is a hollow, appeasing, and bankrupt idea. 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. Feminism.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “I want to hold his hand, but I know he will shake it free. His eyes are too full of guilt to really see me, to see his reflection in my eyes, the reflection of my hero, the brother who tried always to protect me the best he could. He will never think that he did enough, and he will never understand that I do not think he should have done more.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote: “And so girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. Who silence themselves. Who cannot say what they truly think. Who have turned pretence into an art form. I.”
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