She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie