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“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie

Source: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/15-quotes-from-chimamanda-adichie-that-have-change/

“Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

“Greatness depends on where you are coming from.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

“How can we resist exploitation if we don’t have the tools to understand exploitation?”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun
Source: https://sheleadsafrica.org/20-powerful-chimamanda-adichie-quotes-for-todays-boss-women/

“Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie

Source: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/15-quotes-from-chimamanda-adichie-that-have-change/

“The late Kenyan Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said, the higher you go, the fewer women there are.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

“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.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Americanah

Source: Americanah

“She had always liked this image of herself as too much trouble, as different, and she sometimes thought of it as a carapace that kept her safe.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Americanah

Source: Americanah

“… there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Americanah

Source: Americanah

“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 make your hair do what it wasn't meant to do.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Americanah

Source: Americanah

“How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Americanah

Source: Americanah

“Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Americanah

Source: Americanah

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

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Americanah

Source: Americanah

“Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Americanah

Source: Americanah

“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_we_should_all_be_feminists#t-1300116 We should all be feminists

“That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Americanah

Source: Americanah

“Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists
Source: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/15-quotes-from-chimamanda-adichie-that-have-change/

““ 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 would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie

“A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie

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