Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes
The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?
2622 If the sun refuses to rise we will make it rise
2223 At some point I was a Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men and Who Likes to Wear Lip Gloss and High Heels for Herself and Not For Men.
3733 We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.
3051 There are two answers to the things they will teach you about our land: the real answer and the answer you give in school to pass. You must read books and learn both answers.
2584 Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.
1169 The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership.
3991 You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?” Aunty Ifeka said. “Your life belongs to you and you alone.
3101 The biggest problem in this country is not corruption. The problem is that there are many qualified people who are not where they are supposed to be because they won’t lick anybody’s ass, or they don’t know which ass to lick or they don’t even know how to lick an ass. I’m lucky to be licking the right ass.” She smiled.
3100 He looked people in the eye not because he was interested in them but because he knew it made them feel that he was interested in them
2764 Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.
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