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“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? Who will break that cycle?”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Purple Hibiscus

Source: Purple Hibiscus

“I am trying to unlearn many lessons of gender I internalized while growing up. But I sometimes still feel vulnerable in the face of gender expectations.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

“I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is just as obvious to everyone else.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

“If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over, it becomes normal.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

“She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book The Thing Around Your Neck

Source: The Thing Around Your Neck

“And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

“Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl.
'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything.
Ever.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie

Source: Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

“This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

“Being defiant can be a good thing sometimes," Aunty Ifeoma said. "Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing when it is used right.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Purple Hibiscus

Source: Purple Hibiscus

“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.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

“You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

“The truth has become an insult.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

“Teach her that if you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Source: Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

“I'm chasing you. I'm going to chase you until you give this a chance.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Americanah

Source: Americanah

“Academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stayed securely in them.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Americanah

Source: Americanah

“They never said “I don’t know.” They said, instead, “I’m not sure,” which did not give any information but still suggested the possibility of knowledge.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Americanah

Source: Americanah (2013)

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

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Americanah

Source: https://sheleadsafrica.org/20-powerful-chimamanda-adichie-quotes-for-todays-boss-women/

“They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and of the heartbroken desire to see a place made whole again.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Americanah

Source: Americanah

“Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

“To have money, it seemed, was to be consumed by money.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Americanah

Source: Americanah