Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• Culture does not make people. People make culture.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  People, Doe, Culture

  "We Should All Be Feminists". Book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, July 29, 2014.

• When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but has turned that disregard into a virtue. "We are too superior/busy/cool/not-uptight to bother about how we look to other people, and so we can wear pajamas to school and underwear to the mall.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  School, Self, People

• Culture does not make people - people make culture. So if it is in fact true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, we must make it our culture. [...] A feminist is a man or a woman who says, 'yes there is a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it. We must do better.'

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Men, People, Feminist

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

• Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in "real" African culture, before it was tainted by the west, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Real, West, Culture

  "Nigeria's immorality is about hypocrisy, not miniskirts" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2008.

• I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Reality, Culture, Poverty

  "The Rumpus Interview With Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie". Interview with Kima Jones, therumpus.net. June 17, 2014.

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