749 Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Your life belongs to you and you alone.

I was stained by failure.

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from.

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

At about the age of seven … I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples, and they talked a lot about the weather: how lovely it was that the sun had come out. This despite the fact that I lived in Nigeria; we didn’t have snow, we ate mangoes, and we never talked about the weather, because there was no need to.

I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.

Her blog was doing well, with thousands of unique visitors each month, and she was earning good speaking fees, and she had a fellowship at Princeton and a relationship with Blaine - "You are the absolute love of my life," he'd written in her last birthday card - and yet 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.

For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that.