749 Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The vice chancellor announced that all evening classes were cancelled and everyone had to be indoors by 9 p.m. This did not make much sense to me, since the shooting happened in sparkling daylight
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L'unica storia crea stereotipi. E il problema degli stereotipi non è che sono falsi, ma che sono incompleti. Trasformano una storia in un'unica storia.
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...a Nigerian couple visiting from Maryland, their two boys sitting next to them on the sofa, both buttoned-up and stiff, caged in the airlessness of their parents' immigrant aspirations.
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A sated belly gave Americans the luxury of praising themselves for being good parents, as if caring for one's child was the exception rather than the rule.
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Não tinha mais certeza, na verdade nunca tivera certeza, se gostava de sua vida porque realmente gostava ou se porque deveria gostar.
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She imagines the cocoa brown of Nnedi's eyes lighting up, her lips moving quickly, explaining that riots do not happen in a vacuum, that religion and ethnicity are often politicized because the ruler is safe if the hungry ruled are killing one another.
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Aokpe will always be special because it was the reason Kambili and Jaja first came to Nsukka.
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Tudo bem, você pode falar desse jeito complicado, mas o que eu estou dizendo é verdade. Cabelo natural tem algo de desleixado e desmazelado.
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Han upptäckte att sorg inte mattas med tiden utan istället var ett labilt sinnestillstånd.
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