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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 80a51a2 | Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture. I | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 325c04a | breadfruit seeds she had offered him was untouched--he no longer ate anything at all of hers--and she looked at him, this man wearing trousers, and a rosary around his neck, and wondered whether she had meddled with his destiny. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 5505606 | Grace would ponder this story for a long time, with great sadness, and it would cause her to make a clear link between education and dignity, between the hard, obvious things that are printed in books and the soft, subtle things that lodge themselves into the soul. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d9617dc | 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. 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.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 93ef5b7 | When I lost my whole family, every single one, it was as if I had been born all over again," Inatimi told Richard in his quiet way. "I was a new person because I no longer had family to remind me of what I had been." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e74cd50 | Feminism and femininity are not mutually exclusive. It is misogynistic to suggest that they are. | feminism misogyny | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 5832d03 | 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." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| dcd2d0d | She felt bitter toward them at first, because when she tried to talk about the things she had left behind in Nsukka--her books, her piano, her clothes, her china, her wigs, her Singer sewing machine, the television--they ignored her and started to talk about something else. Now she understood that nobody talked about the things left behind | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 1f885a7 | Siempre he tenido la impresion de que es imposible conocer debidamente un lugar o a una persona sin conocer todas las historias de ese lugar o esa persona. La consecuencia del relato unico es la siguiente: priva a las personas de su dignidad. Nos dificulta reconocer nuestra comun humanidad. Enfatiza en que nos diferenciamos en lugar de en que nos parecemos | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| f95fbba | My name is not Sah. Call me Odenigbo.' 'Yes, sah.' 'Odenigbo will always be my name. Sir is arbitrary. You could be the sir tomorrow. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ae2fee9 | Education is a priority! How can we resist exploitation if we don't have the tools to understand exploitation? | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9b3c227 | His mind had not changed at the same pace as his life, and he felt a hollow space between himself and the person he was supposed to be. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a9ee191 | Talk to her about sex, and start early. It will probably be a bit awkward, but it is necessary. | sex-education parenting | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 5e3829e | When Buchi said "Amen!" with that delight, that gusto, Obinze feared she would grow up to be a woman who, with that word "amen," would squash the questions she wanted to ask of the world." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 5cf6552 | You know, like race is a brew best served mild, tempered with other liquids, otherwise white folk can't swallow it. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 87a4118 | Men's grooming is never suspect in the way women's grooming is--a well-dressed man does not worry that, because he is dressed well, certain assumptions might be made about his intelligence, his ability, or his seriousness. A woman, on the other hand, is always aware of how a bright lipstick or a carefully-put-together outfit might very well make others assume her to be frivolous. | feminism fashion sexism | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 7bb4f3a | Never speak of marriage as an achievement. | feminist | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 1888034 | Never apologize for working. You love what you do, and loving what you do is a great gift to give your child. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 3b83444 | Let's have a child," he said again. "A little girl just like you, and we will call her Obianuju because she will complete us." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 1bff097 | Does she have a domestic side? Questions we do not ask of powerful men, which shows that our discomfort is not with power itself, but with women. We judge powerful women more harshly than we judge powerful men. And Feminism Lite enables this. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 7f4effd | Red was the blood of the siblings massacred in the North, black was for mourning them, green was for the prosperity Biafra would have, and, finally, the half of a yellow sun stood for the glorious future | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9e33dad | She looked at him in wonder. This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 08a3d75 | 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 | ||
| eb9ba19 | I am an agnostic respecter of religion. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 3668b20 | He blamed her for making him a person who was not entirely in control of what he was feeling. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| f8fc5d1 | Love was a kind of grief. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| f709b96 | 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? | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b2116b5 | 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. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ced52f9 | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie recalls that the stories she wrote as a seven year old in Nigeria were based on the kinds of stories she read, featuring characters who were white and blue eyed, they played in the snow, the ate apples. According to Adichie, this wasn't just about experimentation or an active imagination, because all I had read were books in which characters were foreign, I had become convinced that books by their very nature had to.. | Darren Chetty | ||
| 271bb5b | 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. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e67c731 | 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. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 5739ed1 | 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. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ecb5c65 | 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. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9269c4d | 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, .. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 80e6dbf | She told him how she very much wanted God to exist but feared He did not... | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 12c7ab8 | 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. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 2e651b9 | 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. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 186f040 | So you say. A woman with children and no husband, what is that?" "Me." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d9a5843 | Luka luka yang kita kumpulkan menandai kesalahan sekaligus keberhasilan kita | inheritance-cycle quotes | Christopher Paolini | |
| 94b1a06 | La muerte me parece una aventura mas accesible que la huida. | María Luisa Bombal | ||
| c0919c9 | Cuando el periodista se encasilla en un grupo o en el contrario y esta dispuesto a entrar en la gran batuta politica, hay una tregua y se le respecta. Al franco tirador no se le quiere, y yo soy un franco tirador por naturaleza. Disparo lo mismo contra la mira del obispo y el tricornio del gendarme como contra el gorro frigio del republicano cuando me parece que no esta en su sitio. Me dicen que esto lo hago por ambicion o por interes. Fant.. | intereses periodista política | Pío Baroja | |
| 1876683 | Y tu sabes lo que le dijo Dios a Adan? -No recuerdo, la verdad. -Pues al tenerle a Adan delante, le dijo: Puedes comer todos los frutos del jardin; pero cuidado con el fruto del arbol de la ciencia del bien y del mal, porque el dia que tu comas su fruto moriras de muerte. Y Dios, seguramente, anadio: Comed del arbol de la vida, sed bestias, sed cerdos, sed egoistas, revolcaos por el suelo alegremente; pero no comais del arbol de la ciencia,.. | Pío Baroja | ||
| 0a139ba | A una colectividad no se le movera jamas diciendole: Puede haber una forma social mejor. Es como si a una mujer se le dijera: Si nos unimos, quiza vivamos de una manera soportable. No, a la mujer y a la colectividad hay que prometerles el paraiso (...) | Pío Baroja | ||
| c83dd70 | Entre esa mujer y yo puede haber varias funciones matematicas: suma, si hacemos los dos una misma cosa ayudandonos; resta, si ella quiere una cosa y y la contraria y vence uno de los dos contra el otro; multiplicacion, si tenemos un hijo, y division si yo la corto en pedazos a ella o ella a mi. | Pío Baroja |