Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

In Feminism Lite, that men are naturally superior but should be expected to ‘treat women well’. No. No. No. There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman’s well-being. Feminism Lit...

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Racism is about the power of a group and in America it’s white folks who have that power. How? Well, white folks don’t get treated like shit in upper-class African-American communities and white folks...

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

This is war, no longer a police action. He shook his head. We were sabotaged. Would you

Men hans osäkerhet tystade honom varje gång; han var rädd för vad hon skulle svara.

All of us look alike to white people, Aunty Uju said.

And have your white friend say how funny it is, that American pollsters ask white and black people if racism is over. White people in general say it is over and black people in general say it is not....

Anglo-Saxon Protestant, otherwise known as WASP, and American Black is always on the bottom, and what’s in the middle depends on time and place. (Or as that marvelous rhyme goes: if you’re white, you’...

Aunty Ifeoma came the next day, in the evening, when the orange trees started to cast long, wavy shadows across the water fountain in the front yard. Her laughter floated upstairs into the living room...

Because I am female, I’m expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.

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.

Besides, humility had always seemed to him a specious thing, invented for the comfort of others; you were praised for humility by people because you did not make them feel any more lacking than they a...

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...

Blaine needed what she was unable to give and she needed what he was unable to give, and she grieved this, the loss of what could have been. So

Both religion and science have spaces for the things we do not know, and it is enough to make peace with that.

But Emenike resumed talking, gesturing, his movements fluid and sure, his manner still that of a person convinced they knew things that other people would never know.

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. And...

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 fragile egos. The a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is. And then we do a m...

But here is a sad truth: Our world is full of men and women who do not like powerful women. We have been so conditioned to think of power as male that a powerful woman is an aberration. And so she is...