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...
To choose to write is to reject silence. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
To choose to write is to reject silence.
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.
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.
There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.
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.
I like the U.S. and feel gratitude towards it. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I like the U.S. and feel gratitude towards it.
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.
You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.
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.
We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.
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.
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.
