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43 quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Sorry, your browser either has JavaScript disabled or does not have any supported player. You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about The Thing Around Your Neck on Bookbits radio. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (i/tʃɪmɑːmɑːndə əŋɡoʊzi ʌdiːtʃ(j)eɪ/;[note 1] born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian novelist and short story writer. She has been called "the most prominent" of a...
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce... →

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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... →

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I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a... →

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I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that... →

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I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about... →

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Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I... →

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What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that simple. You have... →

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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... →

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I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first read... →

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The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality is difficult... →

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If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to... →

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My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free.

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I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity... →

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