Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

When you are black in America and you fall in love with a white person, race doesn’t matter when you’re alone together because it’s just you and your love. But the minute you step outside, race matter...

When you use the nude color of underwear and Band-Aids, do you already know that it will not match your skin?

Why does it have to be you as a woman? Why not you as a human being? This type of question is a way of silencing a person’s specific experiences.

With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size.

Women must be covered up to protect men. I find this deeply dehumanizing because it reduces women to mere props used to manage the appetites of men.

You know who really killed Lumumba? Master said, looking up from a magazine. It was the Americans and the Belgians. It had nothing to do with Katanga.

You know, like race is a brew best served mild, tempered with other liquids, otherwise white folk can’t swallow it.

You know, you’re a feminist. It was not a compliment. I could tell from his tone—the same tone with which a person would say, You’re a supporter of terrorism.

You make me shy, he said.Are you serious? Because you make me shy.I don't believe anything makes you shy, he said.

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me? Aunty Ifeka said. Your life belongs to you and you alone, soso gi.

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man.

You must nod back when a black person nods at you in a heavily white area. It is called the black nod. It is a way for black people to say You are not alone, I am here too.

You see, in American pop culture, beautiful dark women are invisible. (The other group just as invisible is Asian men. But at least they get to be super smart.) In movies, dark black women get to be t...

Your feminist premise should be: I matter. I matter equally.

All understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness. They would not...

Am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. In addition to anger, I am also hopeful, because I believe deeply in the ability of human beings to remake...

Angry. Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. In addition to anger, I am also hopeful, becau...

Are Third Worlders and Third Worlders are forward-looking, we like things to be new, because our best is still ahead, while in the West their best is already past and so they have to make a fetish of...

Blog brought Blaine back into her life. At the Blogging While

But 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 f...