749 Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I matter. I matter equally. Not ‘if only’. Not ‘as long as’. I matter equally. Full stop.

Teach her to question language. Language is the repository of our prejudices, our beliefs, our assumptions.

You knew you had become comfortable when you told him that you watched Jeopardy on the restaurant TV and that you rooted for the following, in this order: women of color, black men, and white women, before, finally, white men – which meant you never rooted for white men.

The best thing about America is that it gives you space. I like that. I like that you buy into the dream, it’s a lie but you buy into it and that’s all that matters.

You must nod back when a black person nods at you in a heavily white area. It is called the black nod. It is a way for black people to say “You are not alone, I am here too.

Racism should never have happened and so you don’t get a cookie for reducing it.

He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size.

Do it together. Remember in primary school we learned that a verb is a ‘doing’ word? Well, a father is as much a verb as a mother.

Gender matters everywhere in the world. And I would like today to ask that we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently.