Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

Of course it was angry. Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry.

Obinze said it was the exaggerated gratitude that came with immigrant insecurity.

Now that she was asked to speak at roundtables and panels, on public radio and community radio, always identified simply as The Blogger, she felt subsumed by her blog and had become her blog. There we...

We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way boys are. If we have sons, we don’t mind knowing about their girlfriends. But our daughters’ boyfriends? God forbid. (But we of course expec...

Nigerians don’t buy houses because they’re old. A renovated two-hundred-year-old mill granary, you know, the kind of thing Europeans like. It doesn’t work here at all. But of course it makes sense bec...

Nigerian women came to America and became wild, Igbo Massachusetts Accountant wrote in one post; it was an unpleasant truth but one that had to be said. What else accounted for the high divorce rates...

My name is not Sah. Call me Odenigbo.''Yes, sah.''Odenigbo will always be my name. Sir is arbitrary. You could be the sir tomorrow.

We teach girls to be likeable, to be nice, to be false. And we do not teach boys the same. This is dangerous. Many sexual predators have capitalized on this. Many girls remain silent when abused becau...

Maybe it’s time to just scrap the word racist. Find something new. Like Racial Disorder Syndrome. And we could have different categories for sufferers of this syndrome: mild, medium, and acute.

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 t...

I just want to be regular.

Had not even occurred to me to be worried, because a man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in.

I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femininity. And I want to be respected in all my femaleness. Because I deserve to be.

She added that academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stayed securely in them.

She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was...

Hair away from her face, as though one hand could not possibly tame all that hair. How nice to meet you, she said to Ifemelu, smiling, as they shook hands, her hand small,

I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femininity. And I want to be respected in all my femaleness.

When you visit the home of an American with some money, they will offer to show you their house.

Impossible, he said, and switched to Igbo. Ama m atu inu. I even know proverbs. Yes. The basic one everybody knows. A frog does not run in the afternoon for nothing. No. I know serious proverbs. Akota...

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