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In America, racism exists but racists are all gone.
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racism
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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there is nothing more beautiful than what God gave me.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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If you are a woman, you are not supposed to express anger, because it is threatening.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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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. We
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Your mother never wanted to remarry?" "Even if she wanted to, I don't think she would, because of me. I want her to be happy, but I don't want her to remarry." "I would feel the same way. Did she really fight with another professor?" "So you heard that story." "They said it's why she had to leave Nsukka University." "No, she didn't fight. She was on a committee and they discovered that this professor had misused funds and my mother accused ..
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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We have fried chicken in common? Do you realize how loaded fried chicken is as a metaphor here?
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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because it was best if things were simply left at splendid.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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America's tribalisms--race, ideology, and region--became clear.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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she added that academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stayed securely in them.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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hair away from her face, as though one hand could not possibly tame all that hair. "How nice to meet you," she said to Ifemelu, smiling, as they shook hands, her hand small,"
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Ifemelu opened her novel, Jean Toomer's Cane, and skimmed a few pages. She had been meaning to read it for a while now, and imagined she would like it since Blaine did not. A precious performance, Blaine had called it, in that gently forbearing tone he used when they talked about novels, as though he was sure that she, with a little more time and a little more wisdom, would come to accept that the novels he liked were superior, novels writt..
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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. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size. She
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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It was not as if he did not know what living in Lagos could do to a woman married to a young and wealthy man, how easy it was to slip into paranoid about 'Lagos girls,' those sophisticated monsters of glamour who swallowed husbands whole, slithering them down their throats.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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They had both wanted it to happen and they both wished it had not; what mattered now was that nobody else should ever know.
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regret
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Their silence was full of stones. Ifemelu felt like apologizing, although she was not quite sure what she would be apologizing for.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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The Red Cross irritated Ugwu; the least they could do was ask Biafrans their preferred foods rather than sending so much bland flour.
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ignorance
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives that we have imagined.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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You know, we live in an ass-licking economy. 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. "It's just luck. Oga said I was well brought up, that I was not like all the L..
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males. We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Other men might respond by saying: Okay, this is interesting, but I don't think like that. I don't even think about gender. Maybe not. And that is part of the problem. That many men do not actively think about gender or notice gender.
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gender-equality
men-and-feminism
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Ifemelu margined them when they traveled: they would collect unusual things and fill their homes with them, unpolished evidence of their polish.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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With him, she felt breakable, precious.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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the idea of looking shabby because you could afford not to be shabby; it mocked true shabbiness.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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The second tool is a question: Can you reverse X and get the same results? ... If the answer is yes, then your choosing to forgive him can be a feminist choice because it is not shaped by a gender inequality.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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It was a tiny moment, brief and fleeting, but Olanna noticed how scrupulously they avoided any contact, any touch of skin, as if they were united by a common knowledge so monumental that they were determined not to be united by anything else.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Ginika told her that 'fat' in America was a bad word, heaving with moral judgement like 'stupid' or 'bastard,' and not a mere description liked 'short' or 'tall.' So, she had banished the word 'fat' from her vocabulary...She said the word 'fat' slowly, funneling it back and forward, and thought about all the other things she had learned not to say aloud in America.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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The wind blowing across the British Isles was odorous with fear of asylum seekers, infecting everybody with the panic of impending doom, and so articles were written and read, simply and stridently, as though the writers lived in a world in which the present was unconnected to the past, and they had never considered this to be the normal course of history: the influx into Britain of black and brown people from countries created by Britain.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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I should never call myself a feminist since feminists are women who are unhappy because they cannot find husbands. So I decided to call myself a Happy Feminist.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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blog brought Blaine back into her life. At the Blogging While
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Oh, why did he slap her when she's a widow, and that annoyed her even more. She said she should not have been slapped because she is a full human being, not because she doesn't have a husband to speak for her.
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inspirational
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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. American Blacks are not telling you that you are to blame. They are just telling you what is.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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America's ladder of races, Jewish is white but also some rungs below white. A bit confusing,
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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When you use the "nude" color of underwear and Band-Aids, do you already know that it will not match your skin?"
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt. She thought nothing of slender legs shown off in miniskirts--it was safe and easy, after all, to display legs of which the world approved--but the fat woman's act was about the quiet conviction that one shared only with oneself, a sense of rightness that others failed to see.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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he was sure that she, with a little more time and a little more wisdom, would come to accept that the novels he liked were superior, novels written by young and youngish men and packed with things, a fascinating, confounding accumulation of brands and music and comic books and icons, with emotions skimmed over, and each sentence stylishly aware of its own stylishness.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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But if we start raising children differently, then in fifty years, in a hundred years, boys will no longer have the pressure of proving their masculinity by material means.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Basta con que uno hable espanol pero no sea de Espana, y voila, pertenece a una raza llamada hispana.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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are Third Worlders and Third Worlders are forward-looking, we like things to be new, because our best is still ahead, while in the West their best is already past and so they have to make a fetish of that past.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes.
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feminist
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled, Americans have sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of red states and blue states. We have been and always will be the United States of America.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women. I
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males. We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |