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The actual tragedy of Emmett Till, he had told her once, was not the murder of a black child for whistling at a white woman but that some black people thought: But why did you whistle?
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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My advice is that you wait. You can love without making love. It is a beautiful way of showing your feelings but it brings responsibility, great responsibility, and there is no rush.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Look, all of them are white women. This one is supposed to be Hispanic, we know this because they wrote two Spanish words here, but she looks exactly like this white woman, no difference in her skin tone and hair and features. Now, I'm going to flip through, page by page, and you tell me how many black women you see.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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she was a person who denied that things were as they were. A person who had to spread the cloak of religion over her own petty desires.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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The writer had accused me of being 'angry', as though 'being angry' were something to be ashamed of. Of course I am angry. I am angry about racism. I am angry about sexism.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Darkness descended upon him, and when it lifted he knew that he would never see Kainene again and that his life would always be a candlelit room; he would see things only in shadow, only in half glimpses.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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SCHOOL IN AMERICA was easy, assignments sent in by e-mail, classrooms air-conditioned, professors willing to give makeup tests. But she was uncomfortable with what the professors called "participation," and did not see why it should be part of the final grade; it merely made students talk and talk, class time wasted on obvious words, hollow words, sometimes meaningless words. It had to be that Americans were taught, from elementary school, ..
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She told him how she very much wanted God to exist but feared He did not...
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He took her hand in his, both clasped on the table, and between them silence grew, an ancient silence that they both knew. She was inside this silence and she was safe.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Olanna gently placed a pillow beneath her head and sat thinking about how a single act could reverberate over time and space and leave stains that could never be washed off. She thought about how ephemeral life was, about not choosing misery.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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So you say. A woman with children and no husband, what is that?" "Me."
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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o que desejo a Chizalum e o seguinte: que ela seja cheia de opinioes, e que suas opinioes provenham de uma base bem informada, humana e de uma mente aberta. Que ela tenha saude e felicidade. Que tenha a vida que quiser ter.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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But by far the worst thing we do to males -by making them feel they have to be hard -is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is. And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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She had thought of them as "big," because one of the first things her friend Ginika told her was that "fat" in America was a bad word, heaving with moral judgment like "stupid" or "bastard," and not a mere description like "short" or "tall." So she had banished "fat" from her vocabulary."
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Ella no entendia el grunge , la idea de ofrecer un aspecto sucio porque podias permitirte no ir sucio, era una burla para los verdaderamente sucios.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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I was once talking about gender and a man said to me, 'Why does it have to be you as a woman? Why not you as a human being?' This type of question is a way of silencing a person's specific experiences. Of course I am a human being, but there are particular things that happen to me in the world because I am a woman.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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And that is part of the problem. That many men do not actively think about gender or notice gender.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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A las ninas les decimos: Puedes tener ambicion, pero no demasiada. Debes intentar tener exito, pero no demasiado, porque entonces estaras amenazando a los hombres. Si tu eres el sosten economico en tu relacion con un hombre, finge que no lo eres, sobre todo en publico, porque si no lo estaras castrando. [...] ?Por que el exito de una mujer ha de ser una amenaza para un hombre?
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He told me that people were saying my novel was feminist, and his advice to me--he was shaking his head sadly as he spoke--was that I should never call myself a feminist since feminists are women who are unhappy because they cannot find husbands.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Of course it was angry. Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Never apologize for working. You love what you do, and loving what you do is a great gift to give your child.' I find this to be so wise and moving. You don't even have to love your job; you can merely love what your job does for you - the confidence and self-fulfilment that come with doing and earning.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Si solo vemos a hombres presidiendo empresas, empezara a parecernos <> que solo haya hombres presidentes de empresas.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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teach a writing workshop in Lagos and one of the participants, a young woman, told me that a friend had told her not to listen to my "feminist talk"; otherwise she would absorb ideas that would destroy her marriage."
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Do you usually decide what answers you will believe before you do an interview?
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Cuanto mas duro se siente obligado a ser un hombre, mas debilitado queda su ego.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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What struck me--with her and with many other female American friends I have--is how invested they are in being "liked." How they have been raised to believe that their being likable is very important and that this "likable" trait is a specific thing. And that specific thing does not include showing anger or being aggressive or disagreeing too loudly. We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. But the rever..
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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his own will always be seen as different
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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These people, they make you become aggressive just to hold your dignity.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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they would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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I went to Temple?
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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All of us look alike to white people," Aunty Uju said."
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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I now know that nothing he does will make my life change. My life will change only if I want it to change.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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If we see the same thing over and over, it becomes normal.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Don't see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Are you still working on that? Since when did eating become work?
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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These Americans cannot speak English
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Try listening, maybe. Hear what is being said. And remember that it's not about you.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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My own definition of a feminist is a man or a woman who says, 'Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better.' All of us, women and men, must do better.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Feminista: uma pessoa que acredita na igualdade social, politica e economica entre os sexos.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Women must be "covered up" to protect men. I find this deeply dehumanizing because it reduces women to mere props used to manage the appetites of men."
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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E se os pais, desde o inicio, tivessem ensinado ambos os filhos a cozinhar macarrao instantaneo? Alias, aprender a cozinhar e bom para a vida pratica e util de um menino -- nunca vi sentido em deixar nas maos de terceiros uma coisa tao crucial como a capacidade de se nutrir.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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We teach girls shame. Close your legs. Cover yourself. We make them feel as though by being born female, they are already guilty of something. And so girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. Who silence themselves. Who cannot say what they truly think.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Todo el mundo tendra una opinion de lo que deberias hacer, pero lo importante es lo que tu quieras y no lo que los demas quieran que quieras.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |