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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

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: January 1
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Red was the blood of the siblings massacred in the North, black was for mourning them, green was for the prosperity Biafra would have, and, finally, the half of a yellow sun stood for the glorious future.
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Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.
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Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal to one dead white person.
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Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from.
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There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.
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Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.
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Honesty. And I just really think there's a fundamental friendship that needs to exist, whether it's a lover, whether it's a sister...there's just this connection both people need to be effortlessly themselves.
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This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.
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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.
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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.
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Your life belongs to you and you alone.
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I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.
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I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.
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Greatness depends on where you are coming from.
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That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out
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If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.
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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.
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The only reason race matters is because of racism.
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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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I would come, many years later, to understand why To Kill A Mockingbird is considered an important novel, but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.
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