Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie: Quotes about people

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie is Nigerian writer. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“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/

Women , People

“Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Americanah

Source: Americanah (2013)

People

“Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie

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

People

“The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new world; rather, it is that the majority have not been given the tools to negotiate this new world.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

People , World

“Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie

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

People

“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

People , World

“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

People , Communication

“People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Purple Hibiscus

Source: Purple Hibiscus

God , People , Time

“People will selectively use “tradition” to justify anything.”

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

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

People

“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

“"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

“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

“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

“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

“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