Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• There are people who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not crawl, once

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Baby, Fall, Past

• He was already looking at their relationship through the lens of the past tense. It puzzled her, the ability of romantic love to mutate, how quickly a loved one could become a stranger. Where did the love go? Perhaps real love was familial, somehow, linked to blood, since love for children did not die as romantic love did.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Children, Real, Romantic Love

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.314, Anchor

• In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in the movies about the civil rights era. Here's the thing: the manifestation of racism has changed but the language has not. So if you haven't lynched somebody then you can't be called a racist. If you're not a bloodsucking monster, then you can't be called a racist. Somebody has to be able to say that racists are not monsters.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Mean, Past, Rights

• I think it's important to humanize history; fiction can help us remember. A lot of books I've read in the past have been so much more important than textbooks - there is an emotional connection with one particular person. I'm very much of a research-is-important type of fiction writer, even for contemporary fiction. I wrote about blogs in America and I've never blogged. But I read many, many blogs - usually about feminist things, or about race, or about hair.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Book, Past, Emotional

  "Meet Beyoncé's Favorite Novelist". Interview with Keziah Weir, www.elle.com. February 15, 2014.

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