Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: 'You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you will threaten the man.' Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices, always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now, marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support, but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don't teach boys the same?

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Inspiring, Girl, Women

  "We should all be feminists". TED Talks, www.ted.com. December 2012.

• Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  America, Choices, Black

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.242, Anchor

• Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Race, White Privilege, Choices

• Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly what white privilege is, that you can say that. Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Race, White Privilege, Choices

• Because I am female, I’m expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Mutual Support, Choices, Mind

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.15, Vintage

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