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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story."

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something."

We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.




Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in."

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "To choose to write is to reject silence."

To choose to write is to reject silence.




Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly."

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself."

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick."

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.




Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly."

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "Culture does not make people. People make culture."

Culture does not make people. People make culture.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "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."

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.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be."

I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "You can have ambition But not too much You should aim to be successful But not too successful Otherwise you will threaten the man"

You can have ambition But not too much You should aim to be successful But not too successful Otherwise you will threaten the man




Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls 'You can have ambition, but not too much'."

We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls 'You can have ambition, but not too much'.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria."

I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles."

This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable."

There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work."

I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "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."

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.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there."

I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are."

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "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."

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.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs."

She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?"

Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name."

She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism."

You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them."

I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become."

Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person."

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know."

We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise."

When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present."

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity."

Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction."

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "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."

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.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out"

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from."

Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care."

Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich."

There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be."

You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "You deserve to take up space."

You deserve to take up space.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "The only reason race matters is because of racism."

The only reason race matters is because of racism.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "Greatness depends on where you are coming from."

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it."

And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "Your life belongs to you and you alone."

Your life belongs to you and you alone.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power."

How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better."

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



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "Because I am female, I’m expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important."

Because I am female, I’m expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes."

I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: "I am interested in challenging the mainstream ideas of what is beautiful and what is acceptable."

I am interested in challenging the mainstream ideas of what is beautiful and what is acceptable.