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If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case so it's important to engage with the other Africa.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Age: 48
Born: 1977
Born: January 1
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Culture does not make people. People make culture.
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I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'
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The higher you go, the fewer women there are.
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Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in real African culture, before it was tainted by the west, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.
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I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social realities of their existence would be part of the story.
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Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.
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If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.
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Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.
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This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.
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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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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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Your life belongs to you and you alone.
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I was stained by failure.
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I didn't want to be apologetic about my love story, and I think to be willing to write about love you have to be willing to sound foolish. I wanted to write about foolish and goofy love and different relationships. I wanted to write about interracial relationships in a way that does not pretend as if race does not exist.
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How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.
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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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One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.
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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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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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At some point I was a HappyAfricanFeminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and who wears high heels for herself but not for men.
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