Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes - Page 3

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• She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size.. It seemed so natural, to talk to him about odd things. She had never done that before. The trust, so sudden and yet so complete, and the intimacy, frightened her.. But now she could think only of all the things she yet wanted to tell him, wanted to do with him.

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  Thinking, Self, Skins

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• I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.

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  Feminist, Looks, World

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Storyteller". Interview with Janell Hobson, msmagazine.com. March 6, 2015.

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• She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.

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  Self, Firsts, Affection

  FaceBook post by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from Aug 31, 2014

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• Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?

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  Safety, Silence, Needs

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008). “Half of a Yellow Sun”, p.189, Anchor

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• 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.

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  America, Choices, Black

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

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• When I'm in a good mood I like to cook. But I don't like saying it in public because I find myself being resentful of the idea; "Now you will make a good wife. You can cook, right?" So when people ask me I go, "No, I don't like cooking!"

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  People, Wife, Cooking

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

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• I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had recently read a novel called American Psycho,and that it was a shame that young Americans were serial murderers.

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  Father, Character, Men

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• I was stained by failure.

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  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2012). “Purple Hibiscus: A Novel”, p.39, Algonquin Books

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• There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.

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  Unforgivable, Yellow Sun

  FaceBook post by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from Dec 04, 2011

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• Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.

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  Sex, Believe, Feminist

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

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• People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.

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  Crush, People, Rivals

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2012). “Purple Hibiscus: A Novel”, p.220, Algonquin Books

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• They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and of the heartbroken desire to see a place made whole again.

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  Heartbroken, Stupidity, Desire

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.153, Anchor

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• For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that.

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  Two, Groups, World

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.20, Vintage

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• Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.

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  People, Shows, One Thing

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

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  Names, Lasts, Stranger

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008). “Half of a Yellow Sun”, p.273, Anchor

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• Being defiant can be a good thing sometimes," Aunty Ifeoma said. "Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing when it is used right.

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  Marijuana, Sometimes, Good Things

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2012). “Purple Hibiscus: A Novel”, p.144, Algonquin Books

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• I think my first general rule is that most of my experiences are not that interesting. It's usually other people's experiences. It's not that entirely conscious. Somebody tells me a story or, you know, repeats an anecdote that somebody else told them and I just feel like I have to write it down so I don't forget - that means for me, something made it fiction-worthy. Interesting things never happen to me, so maybe two or three times when they do, I have to use them, so I write them down.

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  Mean, Writing, Thinking

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• You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.

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  People, Bed, Looks

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008). “Half of a Yellow Sun”, p.159, Anchor

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• 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.

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  Asking, Answers, Want

  FaceBook post by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from Jun 04, 2013

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• 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.

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  Children, Real, Romantic Love

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

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• There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even accepted that the man is ugly,' Kainene said. There was a small smile on her face and then she was laughing, and Olanna could not help but laugh too, because it was not what she had wanted to hear and because hearing it had made her feel better.

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  Feel Better, Men, Long

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008). “Half of a Yellow Sun”, p.486, Anchor

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• I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.

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  Beautiful, Acceptance, Hair

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 'My new novel is about love, race... and hair'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2013.

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• Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.

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  People, Novel, Asks

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.208, Anchor

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• Papa sat down at the table and poured his tea from the china tea set with pink flowers on the edges. I waited for him to ask Jaja and me to take a sip, as he always did. A love sip, he called it, because you shared the little things you loved with the people you love.

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  Flower, People, Tea

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2012). “Purple Hibiscus: A Novel”, p.8, Algonquin Books

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• ...there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness.

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  Morning, Soul, Desire

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.12, Anchor

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