Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Want

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is Nigerian writer. Explore interesting quotes on want.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 194 quotes28 likes

“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

“I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

“She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

“We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Purple Hibiscus

Source: Purple Hibiscus

“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

“… he did not want me to seek the whys, because there are some things that happen for which we can formulate no whys, for which whys simply do not exist and, perhaps, are not necessary.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Purple Hibiscus

Source: Purple Hibiscus

“Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

“How was it possible to miss something you no longer wanted?”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Americanah

Source: Americanah

“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

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