Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

Jewish guy did not know this, but 'oppression olympics' is what smart liberal Americans say, to make you feel stupid and to make you shut up.

Is Obama Anything but Black?So lots of folk—mostly non-black—say Obama’s not black, he’s biracial, multiracial, black-and-white, anything but just black. Because his mother was white. But race is not...

And they had never considered this to be the normal course of history: the influx into Britain of black and brown people frount countries created by Britain.

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.

They are always so quiet, he said, turning to Papa. So quiet.They are not like those loud children people are raising these days, with no home training and no fear of God, Papa said, and I was certain...

I am just as human as the man.

Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today because you don't want to sweat out this straightness. You're always battling to...

When we say fathers are helping, we are suggesting that child care is a mother's territory, into which fathers valiantly venture. It is not.

It doesn't have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There's a lot you can do with natural hair

The point of diversity workshops, or multicultural talks, was not to inspire any real change but to leave people feeling good about themselves. They did not want the content of her ideas; they merely...

I was telling them about back home and how all the boys were chasing me because I was half-caste, and they said I was dissing myself. So now I say biracial, and I'm supposed to be offended when somebo...

There was an impatience in her tone, almost an accusation, as she added that academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stayed...

If I had not grown up in Nigeria- and if all I knew of Africa were of popular images- I too would think that africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals and incomprehensible people f...

Soon, he said in his letter. They said soon to each other often, and soon gave their plan the weight of something real.

I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a daddy's girl, and even though I would rather my smile wa...

You could have just said Ngozi is your tribal name and Ifemelu is your jungle name and throw in one more as your spiritual name. They’ll believe all kinds of shit about Africa.

The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? W...

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

In a healthy relationship, it is the role of whoever can provide to provide.

There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.