749 Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

ما كان يفعله الأب أمادي من تشجيع للصبية لتحقيق مستويات أعلى للوثب، هو نفسه تماماً، ما كانت تفعله العمة أفيوما من تشجيع لأبنائها على أن بمقدورهم تحقيق المزيد من التقدم، وعلى أنها تتوقع منهم المزيد من النجاح. لكن جاجا وأنا لم نكن نحقق تقدماً لأننا نثق بقدراتنا، وإنما لأننا كنا نخشي وينتابنا الذعر من عدم قدرتنا على تحقيق ما يتوقعه بابا منا من نجاح.

Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.

Red was the blood of the siblings massacred in the North, black was for mourning them, green was for the prosperity Biafra would have, and, finally, the half of a yellow sun stood for the glorious future.

I've always been curious about how much of our cultural baggage we bring to what and how we read. I suspect we bring a lot, although we like to think we don't.

Being defiant can be a good thing sometimes," Aunty Ifeoma said. "Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing when it is used right.

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

The only reason race matters is because of racism.

The problem with looking in the mirror is that you never know how you will feel about what you see. Sometimes, when my hormones are out of sync, I have no interest in the mirror, and if I do look I think everything is all wrong. Other times, I am quite pleased with what I see.

I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance , insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.