Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieis a Nigerian novelist, nonfiction writer and short story writer. A MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, Adichie has been called "the most prominent" of a "procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature"...
NationalityNigerian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth15 September 1977
CountryNigeria
shoes talking legs
She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs.
inspiring writing mind
You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.
girl hair color
Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye … I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature.
strong trying change-for-the-better
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.
people looks bed
You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.
father character men
I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had recently read a novel called American Psycho,and that it was a shame that young Americans were serial murderers.
self firsts affection
She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.
problem gender should
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.
love miracle coincidence
This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.
unforgivable yellow-sun
There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.
feminist world way
I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.
stories ability persons
Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.
thinking identity problem
I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.
home thinking back-home
I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.