Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian writer of novels, short stories, and nonfiction. In 2008 she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant. She was...
Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.
To choose to write is to reject silence. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
To choose to write is to reject silence.
I like the U.S. and feel gratitude towards it. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I like the U.S. and feel gratitude towards it.
I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.
Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.
I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.
I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.
This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.
How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.
She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs.
Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.
