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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a146cc6 | She had read many of them, because he recommended them, but they were like cotton candy that so easily evaporated from her tongue's memory. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e6a21b9 | We police girls. We praise girls for virginity but we don't praise boys for virginity. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 359f494 | We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way boys are. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 78efad8 | Be deliberate also about showing her the enduring beauty and resilience of Africans and of black people. Why? Because of the power dynamics in the world, she will grow up seeing images of white beauty, white ability, and white achievement, no matter where she is in the world. It will be in the TV shows she watches, in the popular culture she consumes, in the books she reads. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a2538b0 | Teach her that to love is not only to give but also to take. This is important because we give girls subtle cues about their lives - we teach girls that a large component of their ability to love is their ability to sacrifice their selves. We do not teach this to boys. Teach her that to love she must give of herself emotionally but she must also expect to be given to. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b6dce11 | He was already looking at their relationship through the lens of the past tense. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e680a3e | Chispeante Paola era como las estrellas plateadas que las maestras de Curt pegaban en las hojas de su cuaderno en primaria, fuentes de placer superficial y efimero. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 64f1eb3 | that gently forbearing tone that he used when they talked about novels, as though he were sure that she, with a little more time and a little more wisdom, would come to accept that the novels he liked were superior, novels written by young and youngish men and packed with things, a fascinating, confounding accumulation of brands and music and comic books and icons, with emotions skimmed over, and each sentence stylishly aware of its own sty.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ede00cc | To restore the dignity of man. Obiora was reading the plaque, too. He let out a short cackle and asked, "But when did man lose his dignity?" | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 24a6b1c | University was bigger and baggier, there was room to hide, so much room; she did not feel as though she did not belong because there were so many options for belonging. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 43e742d | Iloba would often...appear at Obinze's door on Sunday afternoons when Obinze was tired from the langour of Sunday afternoons. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a487825 | He thinks we should complicate it, so it's not race alone...'Nuance' means keep people comfortable so everyone is free to think of themselves as individuals and everyone got where they are because of achievement. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 74f7ad1 | Ifemelu told her about the vertigo she had felt the first time she went to the supermarket; in the cereal aisle, she had wanted to get corn flakes, which she was used to eating back home, but suddenly confronted by a hundred different cereal boxes, in a swirl of colors and images, she had fought dizziness. She told this story because she thought it was funny; it appealed harmlessly to the American ego. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| f596c34 | This is really corny but I am so full of you, it's like I'm breathing you, you know?" he had said, and she thought that the romance novelists were wrong and it was men, not women, who were the true romantics." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| afaf0ec | 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. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 042cabb | Please note that I am not suggesting that you raise her to be "non-judgemental," which is is a commonly used expression these days, and which slightly worries me. The general sentiment behind the idea is a fine one, but "non-judgmental" can easily devolve into meaning "don't have an opinion about anything" or "I keep my opinions to myself." And so, instead of that, what I hope for Chizalum is this: that she will be full of opinions, and tha.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 5cf028c | it is one thing to know something intellectually and quite another to feel it emotionally. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| fea4833 |
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 01fb9d9 | Ifemelu imaginaba a los autores, nigerianos en casas lugubres de Estados Unidos, sus vidas amortecidas por el trabajo, guardando el dinero ahorrado con cuidado a lo largo del ano para poder visitar su pais en diciembre durante una semana, y entonces llegarian con maletas llenas de zapatos y ropa y relojes baratos, y verian, en los ojos de sus parientes, imagenes de si mismos intensamente brunidas. Despues regresarian a Estados Unidos para s.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 1584e44 | Estas en un pais que no es el tuyo. Para salir adelante, haces lo que tengas que hacer. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d624427 | and they had never considered this to be the normal course of history: the influx into Britain of black and brown people frount countries created by Britain. | race-issues race-relations | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| f5fb400 | And what's a Magic Negro, you ask? The black man who is eternally wise and kind. He never reacts under great suffering, never gets angry, is never threatening. He always forgives all kinds of racist shit. He teaches the white person how to break down the sad but understandable prejudice in his heart. You see this man in many films. And Obama is straight from central casting. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 3c0d7f3 | Waugh is the best of them. Brideshead is the | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 324809a | Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender, or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 3b73507 | With Curt, she became, in her mind, a woman free of knots and cares...She was lighter and leaner; she was Curt's Girlfriend, a role she slipped into as into a favorite, flattering dress. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| c27e6ad | One day, I will look up and all the people I know will be dead or abroad." She had spoken wearily." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e44a300 | as though the writers lived in a world in which the present was unconnected to the past, and they had never considered this to be the normal course of history: the influx into Britain of black and brown people from countries created by Britain. Yet he understood. It had to be comforting, this denial of history. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d89a5a2 | about what boys think of them. But the reverse is not the case. We don't teach boys to care about being likeable. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons. All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or plea.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e8f9f04 | We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. But the reverse is not the case. We don't teach boys to care about being likeable. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons. All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how t.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 2051852 | He looked people in the eye not because he was interested in them but because he knew it made them feel that he was interested in them. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 2d06bfb | He taught ideas of nuance and complexity in his classes and yet he was asking her for a single reason, the cause. But she had not had a bold epiphany and there was no cause; it was simply that layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 087d2ea | 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. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6d0548c | Nigeria became where she was supposed to be, the only place she could sink her roots in without the constant urge to tug them out and shake off the soil. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e094179 | She called him often, with cheap phone cards she bought from the crowded store of a gas station on Lancaster Avenue, and just scratching off the metallic dust, to reveal the numbers printed beneath, flooded her with anticipation: to hear Obinze's voice again. He calmed her. With him, she could feel whatever she felt, and she did not have to force some cheer into her voice, as she did with her parents, telling them she was very fine, very ho.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 054084b | The more they talked, the more she told herself that this was no coincidence; there was a significance to her meeting this man on the day that she returned her voice to herself. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| cb33c4b | Charming, was what one of the girls said later: Your boyfriend is so charming. And the thought occurred to Ifemelu that she did not like charm. Not Curt's kind, with its need to dazzle, to perform. She wished Curt were quieter and more inward. When he started conversations with people in elevators, or lavishly complimented strangers, she held her breath, certain that they could see what an attention-loving person he was. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 1e5f0a0 | There were, on a window ledge, photos of Emenike squinting in front of the Sistine Chapel, making a peace sign at the Acropolis, standing at the Colosseum, his shirt the same nutmeg color as the wall of the ruin. 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 | ||
| 24ca4d0 | She felt a step removed from the things he believed, and the things he knew, and she was eager to play catch-up, fascinated by his sense of rightness. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 42d40df | This is a modified version of a talk I delivered in December 2012 at TEDxEuston, | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| abf21a0 | This is a modified version of a talk I delivered in December 2012 at TEDxEuston, a yearly conference focused on Africa. Speakers | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b03050f | 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." | slice-of-life | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 81c2c98 | sat thinking about how a single act could reverberate over time and space and leave stains that could never be washed off. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ab5f3af | The pioneering American journalist Marlene Sanders, who was the first woman to report from Vietnam during the war (and who was the mother of a son), once gave this piece of advice to a younger journalist: "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 | ||
| cc6cf36 | Posiveli lasje na strani so bili pocesani naprej, komicna ureditev, ki naj bi prikrila pleso. Moral je biti akademik, vendar ne v humanistiki, sicer bi bil bolj samozavesten. Znanost, kot je kemija, morda. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |