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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle? Picture Quote #1

And it’s wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It’s possible to love something and still condescend to it Picture Quote #1

Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become Picture Quote #1

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present Picture Quote #1

You can’t write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be Picture Quote #1

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person Picture Quote #1

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She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs Picture Quote #1

... 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 Picture Quote #1

Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership Picture Quote #1

He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was right. For a brief irrational moment, she wished she could walk away from him. 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 Picture Quote #1

... he did not want me to seek the whys, because there are some things that happen for which we can formulate no whys, for which whys simply do not exist and, perhaps, are not necessary Picture Quote #1

She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know Picture Quote #1

The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new world; rather, it is that the majority have not been given the tools to negotiate this new world Picture Quote #1

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are Picture Quote #1

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If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre Picture Quote #1

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick Picture Quote #1

Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living Picture Quote #1

When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they’re already guilty of something Picture Quote #1

The idea that sex is something a woman gives a man, and she loses something when she does that, which again for me is nonsense. I want us to raise girls differently where boys and girls start to see sexuality as something that they own, rather than something that a boy takes from a girl Picture Quote #1

I have many problems in my life, but I don’t think that identity is one of them Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be Picture Quote #1

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The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle? (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) And it’s wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It’s possible to love something and still condescend to it (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) You can’t write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) ... 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 (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was right. For a brief irrational moment, she wished she could walk away from him. 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 Quotes) ... he did not want me to seek the whys, because there are some things that happen for which we can formulate no whys, for which whys simply do not exist and, perhaps, are not necessary (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) 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 (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) 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 Quotes) Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new world; rather, it is that the majority have not been given the tools to negotiate this new world (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) 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 (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they’re already guilty of something (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) The idea that sex is something a woman gives a man, and she loses something when she does that, which again for me is nonsense. I want us to raise girls differently where boys and girls start to see sexuality as something that they own, rather than something that a boy takes from a girl (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) I have many problems in my life, but I don’t think that identity is one of them (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) 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? (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes) I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes)

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