749 Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist.

There is no such thing as greatness

Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal to one dead white person.

Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.

Feminism and femininity are not mutually exclusive. It is misogynistic to suggest that they are.

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.

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.

But why do we say nothing?" Ujunwa asked. She raised her voice and looked at the others. "Why do we always say nothing?