Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote

I've never won an award for anything, and I think it's weird. I mean, that's really cool but it's strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange.

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.

A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.

Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father l...

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.