Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Trending quotes (page 5)

“I don’t think sexism is worse than racism, it’s impossible even to compare…It’s that I feel lonely in my fight against sexism, in a way that I don’t feel in my fight against racism. My friends, my family, they get racism, they get it. The people I’m close to who are not black get it. But I find that with sexism you are constantly having to explain, justify, convince, make a case for.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

On why sexism is at times a more difficult argument for her than racism in “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘This could be the beginning of a revolution’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/28/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-feminism-racism-sexism-gender-metoo in The Guardian (2018 Apr 28)

Family , People , Thinking , Way

“I don’t think I’m more inherently likely to do domestic work, or childcare … It doesn’t come pre-programmed in your vagina, right?”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

On how she views gender as a social construct in “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘This could be the beginning of a revolution’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/28/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-feminism-racism-sexism-gender-metoo in The Guardian (2018 Apr 28)

Thinking

“"In Nigeria I'm not black…We don't do race in Nigeria. We do ethnicity a lot, but not race. My friends here don't really get it. Some of them sound like white Southerners from 1940. They say, 'Why are black people complaining about race? Racism doesn't exist!'”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It's just not a part of their existence."

On how views of race differ in Nigeria than the United States in “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘I Wanted To Claim My Own Name’” https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-novelist-ted-speaker-interview in Vogue (2015 Nov 3)

People

“Because we write fiction we mine our souls. Of course you put yourself into your fiction, your fiction is you.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

On the connection between the personal and fictional world in “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘This could be the beginning of a revolution’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/28/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-feminism-racism-sexism-gender-metoo in The Guardian (2018 Apr 28)

Soul

“I cannot control even the dreams that I have made.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Purple Hibiscus

Purple Hibiscus (2003)

Dreams

“So true - when people see an absence of women in engineering, science and technology, then it becomes self-reinforcing.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

People , Women , Science

“A successful story for me exist in a moral universe, not one where goodness always triumph, because that would be false but one with an inherent awareness of goodness”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

https://www.instagram.com/p/CV2h2BKKhl0/?utm_medium=copy_link
The Best Short Stories(2021)

Success , Universe , Falseness

“I look to stories for consolation,the kind of small consolation that one needs to want to wake up everyday;as template for life;for news on how others live;for reminders that life's mysteries have no key”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Best Short Stories(2021)

Life

“Please love by giving and by taking. Give and be given. If you are only giving and not taking, you’ll know. You’ll know from that small and true voice inside you that we females are so often socialized to silence. Don’t silence that voice. Dare to take.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

w:On Men, Love and Relationships
Source: https://sheleadsafrica.org/20-powerful-chimamanda-adichie-quotes-for-todays-boss-women/

Love , Silence

“Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

People

“There was a helplessness to his joy, the same kind of helplessness as in that woman’s despair.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Purple Hibiscus

Source: Purple Hibiscus (2003)

Despair , Joy

“God is big enough to do his own job. If God will judge our father for choosing to follow the way of our ancestors, then let God do the judging, not Eugene.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Purple Hibiscus

Source: Purple Hibiscus (2003)

God , Way

“A gorgeous pitless account of love, violence and betrayal.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a yellow sun (2006)

Betrayal , Love

“When the dark days come - and they will - try and remember this: it will pass,it will definitely pass.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Source: RISD commencement 2019
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CWsDB7fKt2m/?utm_medium=copy_link

“This is the kind of capitalism I hate. This is bullying capitalism. Look, I am Igbo, I come from a trading culture. My people are merchant and I'm all for buying and selling. But capitalism has to be a fair exchange.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Paris review,2019 https://www.instagram.com/p/CWvTJmvqOLy/?utm_medium=copy_link

Hate , People

“Even though I helped to clean the wounded, I had never taken anyone into my room.But I took this girl into my room.Her name was chinasa.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Source: https://campaignforeducation.org/en/

Girl , Help

“Feminism is not that men and women are the same. If men and women are the same, we won't have sexism. We are just stating the differences and people should stop giving negative value to all the attributes that women have. It's not that men and women are the same but they've equally human.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Source: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘I want to say what I think’ https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-59568638 chimamanda ngozi adichie speaking on her speech of 2012 on feminism on (9th December 2021)

People , Women , Men

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie: Trending quotes (page 5)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Trending quotes (page 5)