Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes - Page 6

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• I don't believe that art and politics or social issues must be separated. In writing about marriage, for example, money can be a big factor, and money is linked to earning, and earning is influenced by politics.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Art, Believe, Writing

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Continental Divides". Interview with Joseph Klarl, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.

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• I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Maryland, Columbia, My Time

  Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14, 2010.

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• There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Strange, Dissonance, Nigeria

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

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• Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Madonna's not our saviour" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2007.

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• I like the U.S. and feel gratitude towards it.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Gratitude, Feels

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

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• I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Home, Eye, Years

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

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• Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Trying, Needs, Yellow Sun

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008). “Half of a Yellow Sun”, p.128, Anchor

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• My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've always wanted to write about that period - in some ways to digest it for myself, something that defined me but that I didn't go through.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  War, Writing, Profound

  "Half of a Yellow Sun". Interview with Rina Palta, www.motherjones.com. October 24, 2006.

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