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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“There was something in him, lighter than ego but darker than insecurity, that needed constant buffing, polishing, waxing.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
“Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah (Ala Notable Books for Adults)
Tagged: Writing, Novels, Meaning, purpose
“How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
Tagged: Lies, Relationships, self, Self-awareness, Imagination
“She found it so attractive, his shortness, his solid firm shortness. She saw, in his shortness, a groundedness; he could weather anything, he would not easily be swayed.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah (Ala Notable Books for Adults)
Tagged: Love, Relationships, strength, self
“She wanted to tell him, “There is no week that passed that I did not think of you.” But was that true? Of course there were weeks during which he was folded under layers of her life, but it felt true.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah (Ala Notable Books for Adults)
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Life, Distance, Heartbreak
“Stories matter. 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.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Danger of a Single Story
Tagged: Power of Stories, Storytelling, Narratives
“She found this foolishly exciting, that it was raining where she was and it was not raining where he was, only minutes from her, and so she waited, with impatience, with a charged delight, until they could both see the rain together.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah (Ala Notable Books for Adults)
Tagged: Love, Distance, Nature, Relationships
“Marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 15 quotes from Chimamanda Adichie that have changed the way I look at social issues
Tagged: Marriage, Competition, gender roles, Womanhood, Equality, sexuality
“Ginika told her that ‘fat’ in America was a bad word, heaving with moral judgement like ‘stupid’ or ‘bastard,’ and not a mere description liked ‘short’ or ‘tall.’ So, she had banished the word ‘fat’ from her vocabulary…She said the word ‘fat’ slowly, funneling it back and forward, and thought about all the other things she had learned not to say aloud in America.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
Tagged: fat, size, heavy, Weight
“I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend of a friend, and just listening to her talk is scary. The semiotic dialetics of intertextual modernity. Which makes no sense at all. Sometimes I feel that they live in a parallel universe of academia speaking acadamese instead of English and they don't really know what's happening in the real world.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
Tagged: College, graduate school
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