“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.” WorldHumansTwoProblemHuman BeingsGroupsCenturySolutionsFairsAcknowledgeDivided Book:We Should All Be Feminists Source: We Should All Be Feminists
“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.” ThinkingWorldWritingHumansStoriesRealityWould BeSocialHuman BeingsExistenceFictionRealisticSurprisingRealistic Fiction Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“I am a strong believer in the ability of human beings to change for the better. I am a strong believer in trying to change what we are dissatisfied with.” TryingHumansStrongHuman BeingsAbilityBelieverDissatisfiedChange For The BetterTrying To Change Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“If the government doesn't fund education, which they often don't, students are going to stay home and not go to school. It affects them directly. But I'm really not interested in writing explicitly about that. I'm really interested in human beings, and in love, and in family. Somehow, politics comes in.” IfsWritingHumansHomeGovernmentSchoolHuman BeingsStudentsFundNot Interested Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“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.'” WorldFirstsHumansKindStoriesIndividualSocialFictionReaderFitDetailsHuman LifeInternalsAffectedJaneSmiley Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.” PeopleHumansEasyPoorViewsPovertyMediaObjectsConflictDignityPityAgencyLackingPoor PeopleBadassHuman DignityPersonal DignityAmerican Media Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality is difficult to fully define, but I always recognise it when I see it: it is different from honesty and more resilient than fact, something that exists not in the kind of fiction that explains but in the kind that shows.” HumansKindDifferentFactsShowsRememberDifficultFictionQualityNovelHonestyEmotionalRecogniseResilientEmpatheticHuman Qualities Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly what white privilege is, that you can say that. Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.” HumansChoicesBlackHuman BeingsWhiteRaceFolksPrivilegeBarriersProfessorsWhite PrivilegeHunk Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.” PeopleWayHumansUseProblemWould BeCoursesAsksWomenRightsFeminismCenturyParticularExpressionHuman RightsFeministDenyGenderBelieverTargetWhy NotPretendingVagueMen WomenExcluded Book:We Should All Be Feminists Source: We Should All Be Feminists
