“I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.” WorldWayBelievePersonsAskingInjusticeSakeStorytellingConformDissatisfactionAsking QuestionsDissatisfied Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“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.” WayYearsFirstsImportantGamesNovelMysteryTreeChildhoodSummerTreasureExoticMockingbirdKill A Mockingbird Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“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.” IfsThinkingWayWantWritingDoeDifferentStoriesWantedSoundRaceLove YouWillingFoolishLove StoryGoofyApologeticDifferent Relationships Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“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.” WayWritingWarWantedParentPeriodsMy FamilyDiedProfoundDefinedAffectedGrandfatherMy GrandfatherFather DiedGrandfather Died Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even accepted that the man is ugly,' Kainene said. There was a small smile on her face and then she was laughing, and Olanna could not help but laugh too, because it was not what she had wanted to hear and because hearing it had made her feel better.” MenWayFeelsLongMadeSaidHelpingWantedFacesLaughingUglyHearingAcceptedLazyCriticizeFeel Better Book:Half of a Yellow Sun Source: Half of a Yellow Sun
“There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.” WorldWayDifferentSeemsWealthPoorRichDifferent Ways Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.” WorldWayLooksFeministWorldview 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
“We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are. If we have sons, we don't mind knowing about our sons' girlfriends, but our daughters' boyfriends? God forbid. But of course when the time is right, we expect those girls to bring back the perfect man to be their husband.” IfsMenWayMindGirlCoursesPerfectBoysTeachKnowingSonHusbandDaughterGirlfriendOur DaughterPerfect Man Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
