“ I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend of a friend, and just listening to her talk is scary. The semiotic dialetics of… Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“ 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… Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“ She recognized in Kelsey the nationalism of liberal Americans who copiously criticized America but did not like you to do so; they expected you to be silent and grateful, and always reminded you of ho… Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“ She will listen to BBC radio and hear the accounts of the deaths and the riots - religious with undertones of ethnic tension the voice will say. And she will fling the radio to the wall and a fierce r… Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“ But by far the worst thing we do to males — by making them feel they have to be hard — is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“ Today, we live in a vastly different world. The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovat… Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“ Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We d… Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“ Hay gente que pregunta: ¿Por qué usar la palabra feminista? ¿Por qué no decir simplemente que crees en los derechos humanos o algo parecido?. Pues porque no sería honesto. Está claro que el feminismo… Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“ Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender, or are quick to dismiss the problems of gend… Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“ It was black-black, so thick it drank two containers of relaxer at the salon, so full it took hours under the hooded dryer, and, when finally released from pink plastic rollers, sprang free and full,… Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“ Because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was the mostimportant attribute for survival; the physically stronger person was more likely to lead.And men in general are physic… Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“ You can't write an honest novel about race in this country. If you write about how people are really affected by race, it'll be too obvious. Black writers who do literary fiction in this country, all… Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“ Ojiugo often asked, 'But are they treating you well? Are they treating you well?' as though the treatment was what mattered, rather than the blighted reality of it all, that he was in a holding center… Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“ I learned a lot about systems of oppression and how they can be blind to one another by talking to black men. I was once talking about gender and a man said to me, Why does it have to be you as a woma… Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“ On the day Princess Diana died, a group of students had gathered before a lecture, talking about what they had heard on the radio that morning, repeating paparazzi over and over, all sounding knowing… Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“ He had proved himself to the other men by how well he did at training, how he scaled the obstacles and shimmied up the rough rope, but he had made no friend. He said very little. He did not want to kn… Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“ Talk to her about sex, and start early. It will probably be a bit awkward, but it is necessary. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“ Like how the government of General Abacha was using its foreign policy to legitimize itself in the eyes of other African countries. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“ Una vez yo estaba hablando de cuestiones de género y un hombre me dijo ¿Por qué tienes que hablar como mujer? ¿Por qué no hablas como ser humano?. Este tipo de preguntas es una forma de silenciar las… Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“ The best thing about America is that it gives you space. I like that. I like that you buy into the dream, it's a lie but you buy into it and that's all that matters. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
