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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (/ˌtʃɪmɑːˈmɑːndə əŋˈɡoʊzi əˈdiːtʃeɪ/ ( listen);[note 1] born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian writer of novels, short stories, and nonfiction. She has written the novels Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and Americanah (2013); the short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck (2009), and the essay We Should All Be Feminists (2014).

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About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The late Kenyan Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said 'The higher you go, the fewer women there are. '

Men, Population, Position Of Power, Power, Simply

The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.

Centre, Character, Entertaining, Intelligent, Like, Medicine

Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care.

America, Choices, Black, Stop, Arguing, Make

For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that.

Acknowledge, Exclude, Fair, Groups, Two, World

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Coming, Depends, Greatness, Where You Are

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

Gender, Problem, Today, Yes

To choose to write is to reject silence.

Reject, Rejects, Silence, Write, Writing

And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.

Condescend, Leaves, Rooms, Stills, Think, Thinking

People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.

Crush, Crushes, Know, People, Rivals

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

House, Relationship, Sitting, Window

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?' Aunty Ifeka said. 'Your life belongs to you and you alone.

Behave, Ifeka, Life, Men, Said, Yellow Sun

I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U. S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.

Eye, Eyes, Home, Live, Years

Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal to one dead white person.

Men, Richard, Somebody, White, Writing

When the writing is going well, I'm obsessive. I don't shower, I don't take phone calls, I hardly respond to text messages, I don't do email. I take breaks only to read, and usually I read poetry. When it's not going well, I just lie in bed and eat chocolate.

Chocolate, Lying, Obsessive, Take, Usually, Writing

I am a strong believer in the ability of human beings to change for the better. I am a strong believer in trying to change what we are dissatisfied with.

Strong, Trying, Change For The Better, Ability, Human

Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.

Broken, Empowering, People, Repair, Used

If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.

Agency, Fishing, People, Pond, Voice, Voices

I had people read it early on and, you know, well-meaning people said to me, you should take out the blogs. I didn't get much positive feedback. Only because most of these people were protective of me - it was sort of like a "tone it down, make it easier to swallow" kind of thing. And I just thought if I do that then it's not the book I want to write.

Book, Make, People, Take, Thought, Writing

Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity. ”

People, Broken, Stories, Dignity, Repair

All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women.

Book, Men, Order, Women, World

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