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| 865c070 | They tell us race is an invention, that there is no genetic variation between two black people than there is between a black person and a white person. Then they tell us black people have a worse kind of breast cancer and get more fibroid. And white folk get cystic fibrosis and osteoporosis. So what's the deal, is race an invention or not? | racism-in-america | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| d0df027 | 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. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 37a347d | klm ktb qlWt 'Hlmh | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a5c50c2 | We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 7f65b40 | He told you that the company he worked for had offered him a few thousand more than the average salary plus stock options because they were desperately trying to look diverse. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e4ea4f9 | Ifemelu stood by the window while Aunty Uju sat at the table drinking orange juice and airing her grievances like jewels. It had become a routine of Ifemelu's visits: Aunty Uju collected all her dissatisfactions in a silk purse, nursing them, polishing them, and then on the Saturday of Ifemelu's visit, while Bartholomew was out and Dike upstairs, she would spill them out on the table, and turn each one this way and that, to catch the light. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 70cf47b | You look like a black American" was his ultimate compliment, which he told her when she wore a nice dress, or when her hair was done in large braids." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 85cfab9 | Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| df8ab53 | Os que estudaram vao embora, aqueles que tem potencial para consertar o que esta errado. Eles deixam os fracos para tras. Os tiranos continuam reinando porque os fracos nao conseguem resistir. Voce nao ve que e um circulo vicioso? Quem vai quebrar esse circulo? | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 180f8ca | her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 221ca7a | So if you're going to write about race, you have to make sure it's so lyrical and subtle that the reader who doesn't read between the lines won't even know it's about race. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9d74e3a | One day, I will look up and all the people I know will be dead or abroad. | life memories | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 469bdcc | 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. If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It's easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here's to possibilities of.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 1523bba | Boys and girls are undeniably different biologically, but socialization exaggerates the differences. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e101439 | Of course much of this was tongue-in-cheek, but what it shows is how that word feminist is so heavy with baggage, negative baggage: you hate men, you hate bras, you hate African culture, you think women should always be in charge, you don't wear make-up, you don't shave, you're always angry, you don't have a sense of humour, you don't use deodorant. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 1f1365a | He realized that what he wanted most of all, with her, was time. | time | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 9c2b4cf | Ifemelu would come to realize later that Kimberly used "beautiful" in a peculiar way. "I'm meeting my beautiful friend from graduate school," Kimberly would say, or "We're working with this beautiful woman on the inner-city project," and always, the women she referred to would turn out to be quite ordinary-looking, but always black." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 744b673 | Lagos is a metropolis of almost twenty million people, with more energy than London, more entrepreneurial spirit than New York, and so people come up with all sorts of ways to make a living. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| fbefafe | I realized that if I ever have children, I don't want them to have American childhoods. I don't want them to say 'Hi' to adults, I want them to say 'Good morning' and 'Good afternoon.' I don't want them to mumble 'Good' when somebody says 'How are you?' to them. Or to raise five fingers when asked how old they are. I want them to say 'I'm fine, thank you' and 'I'm five years old.' I don't want a child who feeds on praise and expects a star .. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 830aa9a | That's a pretty strong opinion. -I don't know how to have any other kind. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 32a687f | had not even occurred to me to be worried, because a man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 1450387 | People often told him how humble he was, but they did not mean real humility, it was merely that he did not flaunt his membership in the wealthy club, did not exercise the rights it brought--to be rude, to be inconsiderate, to be greeted rather than to greet--and because so many others like him exercised those rights, his choices were interpreted as humility. | wealth | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 8db1d6e | Ifemelu wanted, suddenly and desperately, to be from the country of people who gave and not those who received, to be one of those who had and could therefore bask in the grace of having given, to be among those who could afford copious pity and empathy. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9cf7baf | Why was "nigger" bleeped out? I mean, "nigger" is a word that exists. People use it. It is part of America. It has caused a lot of pain to people and I think it is insulting to bleep it out. ...it's like being in denial. If it was used like that, then it should be represented like that. Hiding it doesn't make it go away." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9ec54a7 | Obinze imagined him, dutiful and determined, visiting the places he was supposed to visit, thinking, as he did so, not of the things he was seeing but of the photos he would take of them and of the people who would see those photos. The people who would know that he had participated in these triumphs. | tourism | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 2ede49f | Obinze imagined him, dutiful and determined, visiting the places he was supposed to visit, thinking, as he did so, not of the things he was seeing but of the photos he would take of them and of the people who would see those photos. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9e4915b | She felt a sense that things were in order, the way they were meant to be, and that even if they tumbled down once in a while, in the end they would come back together again. | inspirational positivity | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 7f67979 | 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. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e1af424 | There was a certain luxury to charity that she could not identify with and did not have. To take "charity" for granted, to revel in this charity towards people whom one did not know -- perhaps it came from having had yesterday and having today and expecting to have tomorrow. She envied them this." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 4b38705 | Oh, it's normal," he said, and she remembered how he had always been quick to reassure her, to make her feel better. "I was away for a much shorter time, obviously, but I was very surprised when I came back. I kept thinking that things should have waited for me but they hadn't." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b66cfb4 | It puzzled him that she did not mourn all the things she could have been. Was it a quality inherent in women, or did they just learn to shield their personal regrets, to suspend their lives, subsume themselves in child care? She browsed online forums about tutoring and music and schools, and she told him what she had discovered as though she truly felt the rest of the world should be as interested as she was in how music improved the mathem.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6706c06 | Because you are a girl is never a reason for anything. Ever. | feminist | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 783b9a9 | A man is likely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative and creative. We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| f0c27c4 | this man who ate her apple cores and turned even that into something of a moral act. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8eedfcd | Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. In addition to anger, I am also hopeful, because I believe deeply in the ability of human beings to remake themselves for the better. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 19c02a4 | 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." -- | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 313694c | Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general--but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 68caa0c | Teach her that the idea of "gender roles" is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. "Because you are a girl" is never a reason for anything. Ever." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 2cb3823 | A good education isn't the same thing as making the whole damn world something to be explained! | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 539321f | Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general--but to choose to use the vague expression "human rights" is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women. That the problem was not about being human, but specifically about being a female human." | gender-equality human-rights sexism women | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 2c6e2b0 | Your feminist premise should be: I matter. I matter equally. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 2de39af | So, no, this conversation is about gender. Some people will say, "Oh, but women have the real power: bottom power." (This is a Nigerian expression for a woman who uses her sexuality to get things from men.) But bottom power is not power at all, because the woman with bottom power is actually not powerful; she just has a good route to tap another person's power. And then what happens if the man is in a bad mood or sick or temporarily impoten.. | gender sexuality | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| c034bd3 | bristling with half-baked knowledge from the books we had read. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6d03021 | Teach her never to universalize her own standards or experiences. Teach her that her standards are for her alone, and not for other people. This is the only necessary form of humility: the realization that difference is normal. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |