749 Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"Jewish guy did not know this, but 'oppression olympics' is what smart liberal Americans say, to make you feel stupid and to make you shut up."

"It doesn't have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There's a lot you can do with natural hair"

"...she thought of him as a person who did not have a normal spine, but had instead, a firm reed of goodness."

"What is the point of culture? Culture functions ultimately to ensure the preservation and continuity of a people. (...) Culture does not make people. People make culture."

"He thought about the next time he would laugh with her and then the next. He found himself often thinking about the future, even before the present was over."

"I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there."

"Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they seem them as relational rather than as individual equal humans. Men who, when discussing rape, will always say something like 'if it were my daughter or wife or sister.' Yet such men do not need to imagine a male victim of crime as a brother or son in order to feel empathy."

"La cultura no hace a la gente. La gente hace la cultura. Si es verdad que no forma parte de nuestra cultural el hecho de que las mujeres sean seres humanos de pleno derecho, entonces podemos y debemos cambiar nuestra cultura."

"The longer she spent in America, the better she had become at distinguishing, sometimes from looks and gait, but mostly from bearing and demeanor, that fine-grained mark that culture stamps on people. (Chapter 17)"

"They never said “I don’t know.” They said, instead, “I’m not sure,” which did not give any information but still suggested the possibility of knowledge."