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“Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a renowned Nigerian author whose works delve into the intricacies of African life and identity. Born on September 15, 1977, she has garnered international recognition for her novels and short stories. more

“There are those who wake up each morning to conquer the day, and then there are those of us who wake up only because we have to. We live in the shadow of every neighborhood. We own little corner stores, live in run-down apartments that get too little light, and walk the same streets day after day. We spend our afternoons gazing lazily out of windows. Somnambulists, all of us. Someone else said it better: we wake to sleep and sleep to wake.”

Littles Said Light Running Sleep Walks Morning Streets Shadow Window Wake Up Corners Stores Conquer Neighborhood Afternoon Apartment Gazing

Author:Dinaw Mengestu

“Leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making sure people have a livelihood, making sure people receive a living wage, making sure the environment, the Mother Earth, is embraced and cherished and not destroyed. Making sure people are healthy in what they eat, making sure we hold people and corporations accountable for the damage they do not only to our environment but to our institutions.”

“It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even a real decision that turns everything in one direction, but that's not always true, is it? We just fall into our lives.”

Thinking Firsts Real Sometimes Hard Remember Purpose Turns Fall Decision Nice Our Lives One Direction

Book:The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

Source: The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

“It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.”

Trying Firsts Looks Made Moments Lasts Turns Next Waiting Walks Steps Reflection Hardest Gates Terrified Do The Best Firsts And Lasts

Author:Dinaw Mengestu

“The world around us is alive, he would have said, with our emotions and thoughts, and the space between any two people are charged with them all. He had learned early in his life that before any violent gesture there is a moment when the act is born, not as something that can be seen or felt, but by the change it precipitates in the air.”

People World Said Two Moments Felt Born Space Emotion Alive Air Violent Gestures Space Between

Author:Dinaw Mengestu

“My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte Carlo her husband had been waiting in for nearly an hour, she could have said that she respected its place as a mediator between two extremes. Fall came and went, while winter was endured and summer was revered. Fall was the repose that made both possible and bearable, and now here she was was with her husband next to her, heading headlong into an early-fall afternoon with only the vaguest ideas of who they were becoming and what came next.”

Made Said Two Ideas Hands Mother Fall Next Waiting Hours Steps Becoming Husband Summer Red Winter Extremes Afternoon Headings Repose Suitcases Bearable Mediators Two Extremes Monte Carlo

Book:How to Read the Air

Source: How to Read the Air

“The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree that they just very well might have. And so I never questioned Angela about that particular story, or about all the troubling things that it pointed to, content to believe that at least in this version things worked for her better than they did in the one I never heard.”

Believe Wells Real Stories Might Memories Heard Particular Degrees Weight Versions Angela

Book:How to Read the Air

Source: How to Read the Air

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