Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

…he did not want me to seek the whys, because there are some things that happen for which we can formulate no whys, for which whys simply do not exist and, perhaps, are not necessary.

Happens

Want

Want Me

…there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness.

Desire

Morning

Soul

All over the world, girls are raised to be make themselves likeable, to twist themselves into shapes that suit other people. Please do not twist yourself into shapes to please. Don’t do it. If someone likes that version of you, that version of you that is false and holds back, then they actually just like that twisted shape, and not you. And the world is such a gloriously multifaceted, diverse place that there are people in the world who will like you, the real you, as you are.

Girl

People

Real

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 please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women.

Book

Men

Order

And 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.

Rooms

Stills

Thinking

At some point I was a HappyAfricanFeminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and who wears high heels for herself but not for men.

Hate

High Heels

Men

Culture does not make people. People make culture.

Culture

Doe

People

Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I’m Jamaican or I’m Ghanaian. America doesn’t care.

America

Black

Choices

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.

Frightened

Knowing

Would Be

Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.

Married

Partnership

Said

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Crush

Culture

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Doe

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Fall

Feel Better

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Fewer

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Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

…he did not want me to seek the whys, because there are some things that happen for which we can formulate no whys, for which whys simply do not exist and, perhaps, are not necessary.

…there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness.

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 please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women.

And 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.

At some point I was a HappyAfricanFeminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and who wears high heels for herself but not for men.

Culture does not make people. People make culture.

Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I’m Jamaican or I’m Ghanaian. America doesn’t care.

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.

Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.

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