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| 72eb331 | In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in the movies about the civil rights era. Here's the thing: the manifestation of racism has changed but the language has not. So if you haven't lynched somebody then you can't be called a racist. Somebody has to be able to say that racists are not monsters. They are people with loving families, regular folk who pay t.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6ce67e8 | He wanted to know about day-to-day life in America, what people ate and what consumed them, what shamed them and what attracted them, but he read novel after novel and was disappointed: nothing was grave, nothing serious, nothing urgent, and most dissolved into ironic nothingness. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 2ef4462 | Yes, but I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend of a friend, and just listening to her talk is scary. The semiotic dialectics of intertextual modernity. Which makes no sense at all. Sometimes I feel that they live in a parallel universe of academia speaking academese instead of English and they don't really know what's happening in the real world. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 469d358 | La primera vez que imparti una clase de posgrado de escritura estaba preocupada. No por el temario, porque lo tenia bien preparado y estaba ensenando lo que me gustaba. Lo que me preocupaba era que ropa ponerme. Queria que me tomaran en serio. Yo era consciente de que, por el hecho de ser mujer, automaticamente tendria que demostrar mi valia. Y me preocupaba el hecho de resultar demasiado femenina. Tenia muchas ganas de ponerme brillo de la.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 0195e9b | Algumas pessoas me perguntam: "Por que usar a palavra 'feminista'? Por que nao dizer que voce acredita nos direitos humanos, ou algo parecido?" Porque seria desonesto. O feminismo faz, obviamente, parte dos direitos humanos de uma forma geral -- mas escolher uma expressao vaga como "direitos humanos" e negar a especificidade e particularidade do problema de genero. Seria uma maneira de fingir que as mulheres nao foram excluidas ao longo dos.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b041f19 | In secondary school, a boy and a girl go out, both of them teenagers with meager pocket money. Yet the boy is expected to pay the bills, always, to prove his masculinity. (And we wonder why boys are more likely to steal money from their parents.) What | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 05d5dac | I was not worried at all--it 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 | ||
| ca43d32 | A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| de3612e | They fascinated him, the unsubtle cowering of the almost rich in the presence of the rich, and the rich in the presence of the very rich; to have money, it seemed, was to be consumed by money. Obinze felt repulsion and longing; he pitied them, but he also imagined being like them. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d67cbd9 | Everybody is hungry in this country, even the rich men are hungry, but nobody is honest. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8074004 | This is your opportunity! The Zed, shine your eyes! They call it a big-big name, evaluation consulting, but it is not difficult. You undervalue the properties and make sure it looks as if you are following due process. You acquire the property, sell off half to pay your purchase price, and you are in business! You'll register your own company. Next thing, you'll build a house in Lekki and buy some cars and ask our hometown to give you some .. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 4fa804a | femelu could not understand this, her mother's ability to tell herself stories about her reality that did not even resemble her reality | sad | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 8cdd073 | Eu sorrira, correra, ria. Meu peito estava repleto de alguma coisa parecida com espuma de banho. Leve. A leveza era tao doce que eu podia sentir seu gosto na lingua, tinha a docura de um caju maduro, amarelo-vivo. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| cbe370c | Eu sorrira, correra, rira. Meu peito estava repleto de alguma coisa parecida com espuma de banho. Leve. A leveza era tao doce que eu podia sentir seu gosto na lingua, tinha a docura de um caju maduro, amarelo-vivo. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b7e2812 | a Nigerian couple visiting from Maryland, their two boys sitting next to them on the sofa, both buttoned-up and stiff, caged in the airlessness of their parents' immigrant aspirations. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8186809 | 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. He did not boast, either, or speak about the things he owned, which made people as.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| afdbab8 | 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 | ||
| 9b1c0c2 | A ideia de mudar o status quo e sempre penosa. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 2e75618 | We say to girls: 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 | ||
| 8693782 | But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage, but we don't teach boys to do the same? I | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6297688 | 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. It | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 2020a0b | We teach females that in relationships, compromise is what a woman is more likely to do. We | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 2790a19 | And they have been raised to expect so little of men that the idea of men as savage beings with no self-control is somehow acceptable. We | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 44cac05 | What if, in raising children, we focus on ability instead of gender? What if we focus on interest instead of gender? I | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6cad623 | I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femininity. And I want to be respected in all my femaleness. Because I deserve to be. I | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| c576e60 | The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations. Boys | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| f9c5ee6 | C'est etrange, a chaque evenement majeur dans ma vie, j'ai toujours pense que tu etais la seule personne qui puisse me comprendre. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| dc81d48 | Don't even bother telling a white conservative about anything racist that happened to you. Because the conservative will tell you that YOU are the real racist and your mouth will hang open in confusion. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| c003a67 | but racism is about the power of a group and in America it's white folks who have that power. How? Well, white folks don't get treated like shit in upper-class African-American communities and white folks don't get denied bank loans or mortgages precisely because they are white and black juries don't give white criminals worse sentences than black criminals for the same crime and black police officers don't stop white folk for driving while.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6b9c9a6 | Because you are a girl" is never a reason for anything. Ever. I" | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d21703b | I discovered race in America and it fascinated me. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 1759d42 | And I was worried that if I looked too feminine, I would not be taken seriously. I really wanted to wear my shiny lip gloss and my girly skirt, but I decided not to. I wore a very serious, very manly, and very ugly suit. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 7a6dd1b | The only race that matters is the human race. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 10f526c | There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not all crawl, once. Although | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8ffbdb9 | Nature's first green is gold. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e4d3d58 | People were flattered to be asked about themselves and if she said nothing after they spoke, it made them say more. They were conditioned to fill silences. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b6e0689 | They reminded Ifemelu of television commercials, of people whose lives were lived always in flattering light, whose messes were still aesthetically pleasing. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 616797c | We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much. Not | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9075a6c | We do a great disservice to boys in how we raise them. We stifle the humanity of boys. We define masculinity in a very narrow way. Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage. We teach boys to be afraid of fear, of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves, because they | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| c6a2465 | We do a great disservice to boys in how we raise them. We stifle the humanity of boys. We define masculinity in a very narrow way. Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage. We teach boys to be afraid of fear, of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves, because they have to be, in Nigerian-speak--a hard man. In | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| dd2e8ae | 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. We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a87ebe1 | I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femininity. And I want to be respected in all my femaleness. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 99cb180 | Her friend is having a party, this Russian girl, they became friends because they have the same violin tutor. The first time I met the girl's mother, I think she was wearing something illegal, like the fur of an extinct animal, and she was trying to pretend that she did not have a Russian accent, being more British than the British! | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d21235e | O "olhar masculino", como determinante das escolhas da minha vida, nao me interessa." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |