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| 9756788 | It brought to him a disorienting strangeness, because 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 | ||
| 0f0bc0c | He said, 'Ifemelu is a fine babe bu she is too much trouble. She can argue. She can talk. She never agrees. But Ginika is just a sweet gil.' He paused, then added, "He didn't know that was exactly what I hoped to hear, I'm not interested in girls that are too nice" | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| be68ab1 | It's not just Africa's movie and music industry that is booming. African literature, led by the Young Lions, or rather, Lionesses, is seeing a revival, too. I mentioned Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and her TED Talk about Africa's "Single Story." But Adichie, 37, is best known for writing, and her novels Half of a Yellow Sun (now a film directed by fellow Nigerian novelist Biyi Bandele) and Americanah, winner of the United States' prestigious Na.. | Ashish J. Thakkar | ||
| 1d6fe58 | Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes. My | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 18e66c2 | While I lamented in my room, I imagined Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Onyeka Onwenu, Joke Silva, Genevieve Nnaji, among other great women holding high their #BringBackOurGirls placards and banners except that their message would have implied "bring back our women that you have turned into punching bags and take back the bride price you paid." -- | S. A. David | ||
| c4a5b70 | Philadelphia had the musty scent of history. New Haven smelled of neglect. Baltimore smelled of brine, and Brooklyn of sun-warmed garbage. But Princeton had no smell. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 94ac2ab | And after you register your own company, you must find a white man. Find one of your white friends in England. Tell everybody he is your General Manager. You will see how doors will open for you because you have an oyinbo General Manager. Even Chief has some white men that he brings in for show when he needs them. That is how Nigeria works. I'm telling you. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8f8859e | Your life belongs to you and you alone. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| fc9b110 | 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. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| c0bc065 | Her insecurity, so great and so ordinary, silenced him. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9275c60 | Mariama finished her customer's hair, sprayed it with sheen, and, after the customer left, she said, "I'm going to get Chinese." Aisha and Halima told her what they wanted--General Tso's Chicken Very Spicy, Chicken Wings, Orange Chicken--with the quick ease of people saying what they said every day. "You want anything?" Mariama asked Ifemelu. "No, thanks," Ifemelu said. "Your hair take long. You need food," Aisha" | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 0dc721d | We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know. "I have three assignments to do," | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| aee8910 | If you're telling a non-black person about something racist that happened to you, make sure you are not bitter. Don't complain. Be forgiving. If possible, make it funny. Most of all, do not be angry. Black people are not supposed to be angry about racism. Otherwise you get no sympathy. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 09e288b | How was it possible to miss something you no longer wanted? Blaine needed what she was unable to give and she needed what he was unable to give, and she grieved this, the loss of what could have been. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b44d1a3 | physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e4a48ec | Princeton, in the summer, smelled of nothing, and although Ifemelu liked the tranquil greenness of the many trees, the clean streets and stately homes, the delicately overpriced shops, and the quiet, abiding air of earned grace, it was this, the lack of smell, that most appealed to her, perhaps because the other American cities she knew had all smelled distinctly. Philadelphia had the musty scent of history. New Haven smelled of neglect. Ba.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 40c0733 | She had not thought of them as "fat," though. 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." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 4e4f30b | Philadelphia was the smell of the summer sun, of burnt asphalt, of sizzling meat from food carts tucked into street corners, foreign brown men and women hunched inside. Ifemelu would come to like the gyros from those carts, flatbread and lamb and dripping sauces, as she would come to love Philadelphia itself. It did not raise the spectre of intimidation as Manhattan did; it was intimate but not provincial, a city that might yet be kind to y.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b4eaa2f | He believed in good omens and positive thoughts and happy endings to films, a trouble-free belief, because he had not considered them deeply before choosing to believe; he just simply believed. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 04006ec | These Nigerians have been raised to think of women as inherently guilty. And they have been raised to | feminism victim-blaming-blaming | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 05290a7 | Pero no les ocurrio nada. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d479cf6 | Teach about difference. Make difference ordinary. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 5f62671 | They agreed, without any prodding, without the shadows of obligation or compromise, on Barack Obama. At first, even though she wished America would elect a black man as president, she thought it impossible, and she could not imagine Obama as president of the United States; he seemed too slight, too skinny, a man who would be blown away by the wind. Hillary Clinton was sturdier. Ifemelu liked to watch Clinton on television, in her square tro.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a67ff79 | The simplest solution to the problem of race in America? Romantic love. Not friendship. Not the kind of safe, shallow love where the objective is that both people remain comfortable. But real deep romantic love, the kind that twists you and wrings you out and makes you breathe through the nostrils of your beloved. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 575ab23 | She was struck by how mostly slim white people got off at the stops in Manhattan and, as the train went further into Brooklyn, the people left were mostly black and fat. She had not thought of them as "fat," though. 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 judgement like "stupid" or "bastard," and not a mere description like "sho.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 1a96fcf | A quickening inside her, a dawning. She realized, quite suddenly, that she wanted to breathe the same air as Obinze. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 942d797 | She liked, most of all, that in this place of affluent ease, she could pretend to be someone else, someone specially admitted into a hallowed American club, someone adorned with certainty. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 408192a | With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a38f2e3 | The "male gaze," as a shaper of my life's choices, is largely incidental. Gender" | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d8510ab | She had seen that look before, on the faces of white women, strangers on the street, who would see her hand clasped in Curt's and instantly cloud their faces with that look. The look of people confronting a great tribal loss. It was not merely because Curt was white, it was the kind of white he was, the untamed golden hair and handsome face, the athlete's body, the sunny charm and the smell, around him, of money. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8eca955 | You can't write an honest novel about race in this country. If you write about how people are really affected by race, it'll be too obvious. Black writers who do literary fiction in this country, all three of them, not the ten thousand who write those bullshit ghetto books with the bright covers, have two choices: they can do precious or they can do pretentious. When you do neither, nobody knows what to do with you. So if you're going to wr.. | literature-about-literature race race-in-america race-relations | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 2b63488 | Now that she was asked to speak at roundtables and panels, on public radio and community radio, always identified simply as The Blogger, she felt subsumed by her blog and had become her blog. There were times, lying awake at night, when her growing discomforts crawled out from the crevices, and the many readers became, in her mind, a judgmental angry mob waiting for her, biding their time until they could attack her, unmask her. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ab492bf | Ifemelu thought about the expression "sweet girl." Sweet girl meant that, for a long time, Don had molded Ranyinudo into a malleable shape, or that she had allowed him to think he had." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b372d8d | Lagos has never been, will never be, and has never aspired to be like New York, or anywhere else for that matter. Lagos has always been undisputably itself, but you would never know this at the meeting of the Nigerpolitan Club, a group of returnees who gather every week to moan about the many ways Lagos is not like New York as though Lagos had never ever been close to being like New York. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| df52dfc | Bartholomew wore khaki trousers pulled up high on his belly, and spoke with an American accent filled with holes, mangling words until they were impossible to understand. Ifemelu sensed, from his demeanor, a deprived rural upbringing that he tried to compensate for with his American affectation, his gonnas and wannas. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| fff3fa5 | Circles, homework coupons, what foolishness would she next hear? And so she began to teach him mathematics--she called it "maths" and he called it "math" | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 7dba186 | A man with dry, graying skin and a mop of white hair came in with a plastic tray of herbal potions for sale. "No, no, no," Aisha said to him, palm raised as though to ward him off. The man retreated. Ifemelu felt sorry for him, hungry-looking in his worn dashiki, and wondered how much he could possibly make from his sales. She should have bought something. "You talk Igbo to Chijioke. He listen to you," Aisha said. "You talk Igbo?" "Of cours.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 998e82d | It is not hard," Ifemelu said firmly. "You are using the wrong comb." And she pulled the comb from Aisha's hand and put it down on the table." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6fa9a82 | layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her. She | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 4a1dfc3 | I can't believe it. My president is black like me. She read the text a few times, her eyes filling with tears. On | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b60e80f | We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way boys are. If we have sons, we don't mind knowing about their girlfriends. But our daughters' boyfriends? God forbif. (But we of course expect them to bring home the perfect man for marriage when the time is right.) | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 77df95b | Nao tinha mais certeza, na verdade nunca tivera certeza, se gostava de sua vida porque realmente gostava ou se porque deveria gostar. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6a18e2c | My own dernition is a feminist is a man or a woman who says, yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today and we must rx it, we must do better. All of us, women and men, must do better. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b57d909 | Com frequencia faziamos perguntas cujas respostas ja sabiamos. Talvez fizessemos isso para nao precisarmos formular as outras perguntas, aquelas cujas respostas nao queriamos saber. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |