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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, née le 15 septembre 1977 , est une écrivaine nigériane. Elle est originaire d’Abba dans l’État d'Anambra, au sud-est du Nigeria.

✵ 15. septembre 1977
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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie: Citations en anglais

“Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist.”

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

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

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

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

“I was stained by failure.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie livre Purple Hibiscus

Source: Purple Hibiscus

“Teach her to question language. Language is the repository of our prejudices, our beliefs, our assumptions.”

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

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

“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?”

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)

“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.”

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)

“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?”

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)

“"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!'”

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)

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

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)

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

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie livre Purple Hibiscus

Purple Hibiscus (2003)

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

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

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

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

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