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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dca2f2e | Han upptackte att sorg inte mattas med tiden utan istallet var ett labilt sinnestillstand. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e3768ac | Big Men and Big Women, Obinze would later learn, did not talk to people, they instead talked at people... | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| af99084 | On the Subject of Non-American Blacks Suffering from Illnesses Whose Names They Refuse to Know. | non-americans | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 6e77d73 | 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 | ||
| 37d4dea | The other day Marcia was talking about how black women are fat because their bodies are sites of anti-slavery resistance. Yes, that's true, if burgers and sodas are anti-slavery resistance. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 7c16e89 | 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: | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b2b846c | He was already looking at their relationship through the lens of the past tense. It puzzled her, the ability of romantic love to mutate, how quickly a loved one could become a stranger. Where did the love go? Perhaps real love was familial, somehow linked to blood, since love for children did not die as romantic love did. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6ea831e | now." After Ifemelu hung up, still amused, she decided to change the title of her blog to Raceteenth or Various Observations About American Blacks (Those Formerly Known as Negroes) by a Non-American Black. Job Vacancy in America--National Arbiter in Chief of "Who Is Racist" 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. H.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a027a5f | The little boy had a delightful curious face. "Do you live in London?" he asked Obinze. "Yes," Obinze said, but that yes did not tell his story, that he lived in London indeed but invisibly, his existence like an erased pencil sketch; each time he saw a policeman, or anyone in a uniform, anyone with the faintest scent of authority, he would fight the urge" | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 7196178 | happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8c80043 | Besides, humility had always seemed to him a specious thing, invented for the comfort of others; you were praised for humility by people because you did not make them feel any more lacking than they already did. It was honesty that he valued; | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| f60960c | 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. But | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 84453b5 | Ate que enfim" quando o trem finalmente chegou rangendo, com aquela familiaridade que os estranhos adotam uns com os outros depois de compartilhar a decepcao com um servico publico." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| edbbb43 | She looked away, worried that the crush of emotions she had felt while he was speaking would now converge on her face. "Of course you don't. You like your life," she said. "I live my life." "Oh, how mysterious we are." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6d978e4 | 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 | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e3a2a11 | After work, she wandered around the center of Baltimore, aimlessly, interested in nothing. Was this what the novelists meant by ennui? | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e95f5dd | pillow on | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 340e194 | 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 | ||
| b35cd6b | her skin felt as though it was her right size. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 586d434 | But Emenike resumed talking, gesturing, his movements fluid and sure, his manner still that of a person convinced they knew things that other people would never know. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 55acb12 | America to fight on the Internet over their mythologies of home, because home was now a blurred place between here and there, and at least online they could ignore the awareness of how inconsequential they had become. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 312968b | it would hurt him to know that she had felt that way for a while, that her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a6c438a | L'unica ragione per cui dici che la razza non e un problema e perche vorresti che non lo fosse. Tutti lo vorremmo, ma e falso. Vengo da un paese in cui la razza non e un problema ; non mi sono mai pensata nera e lo sono diventata solo al mio arrivo in America. Se sei nero in America e ti innamori di un bianco, la razza non e un problema finche siete da soli, perche siete solo voi e il vostro amore. Ma appena esci fuori la razza ha importanz.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| bbfa773 | Close | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b6a6db3 | She had taught her son the ability to be, even in the middle of a crowd, somehow comfortably inside himself. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8fed285 | all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness. They would not understand why people like him, who were raised well fed and watered but mired in dissatisfaction, conditioned from birth to look towards somewhere else, eternally convinced that real lives happened in that somewhere else, were now resolved to .. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| acaddd6 | I know we could accept the things we can't be for each other, and even turn it into the poetic tragedy of our lives. Or we could act. I want to act. I want this to happen. Kosi is a good | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| aa74102 | If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ee0e13d | Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 514cbd5 | 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. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ce8132b | men hans osakerhet tystade honom varje gang; han var radd for vad hon skulle svara. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 005e079 | He had at first been excited by Facebook, ghosts of old friends suddenly morphing to life with wives and husbands and children, and photos trailed by comments. But he began to be appalled by the air of unreality, the careful manipulation of images to create a parallel life, pictures that people had taken with Facebook in mind, placing in the background the things of which they were proud. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 60bbdbe | Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| cdb40b3 | Hon misstankte alltid att han hade ratt. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| f859fb2 | Du kan inte skriva ett manuskript i huvudet och tvinga dig sjalv att folja det. Du maste lata dig sjalv vara, Richard | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 79afc79 | Nu vet jag att inget han gor kommer att forandra mitt liv. Mitt liv kommer bara att forandras om jag vill att det ska forandras. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9f037f8 | Master was a little crazy; he had spent too many years reading books overseas, talked to himself in his office, did not always return greetings, and had too much hair. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| cde59f3 | Later, when she came to know of the letters he wrote to Congress about Darfur, the teenagers he tutored at the high school on Dixwell, the shelter he volunteered at, she thought of him as a person who did not have a normal spine but had, instead, a firm reed of goodness. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 43c500a | And have your white friend say how funny it is, that American pollsters ask white and black people if racism is over. White people in general say it is over and black people in general say it is not. Funny indeed. More suggestions for what you should have your white friend say? Please post away. And here's to all the white friends who get it. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8f4fed3 | Big Men and Big Women, | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ff52611 | did not talk to people, they instead talked at people, | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ceeec8a | 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. He | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| be8ef87 | If we keep seeing only men as heads of corporations, it starts to seem 'natural' that only men should be heads of corporations. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9f4af9c | She was not curvy or big-boned; she was fat, it was the only word that felt true. And she had ignored, too, the cement in her soul. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |