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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ist eine feministische nigerianische Schriftstellerin, die heute teils in Nigeria, teils in den USA lebt und in englischer Sprache schreibt.

✵ 15. September 1977
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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie Zitate und Sprüche

„Natürlich mache ich mir keine Sorgen, dass ich Männer einschüchtern könnte. Die Art von Mann, die von mir eingeschüchtert wird, ist genau die Art von Mann, an der ich kein Interesse habe.“

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie: Zitate auf Englisch

“How can we resist exploitation if we don’t have the tools to understand exploitation?”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie buch Half of a Yellow Sun

Quelle: Half of a Yellow Sun
Quelle: https://sheleadsafrica.org/20-powerful-chimamanda-adichie-quotes-for-todays-boss-women/

“Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie buch Americanah

Quelle: Americanah

“Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.”

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Quelle: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/15-quotes-from-chimamanda-adichie-that-have-change/

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

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie buch Americanah

Quelle: Americanah

“Maybe it’s time to just scrap the word “racist.” Find something new. Like Racial Disorder Syndrome. And we could have different categories for sufferers of this syndrome: mild, medium, and acute.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie buch Americanah

Quelle: Americanah

“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie

Quelle: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/15-quotes-from-chimamanda-adichie-that-have-change/

“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie We Should All Be Feminists

Quelle: https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_we_should_all_be_feminists#t-1300116 We should all be feminists

“Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie We Should All Be Feminists

Quelle: We Should All Be Feminists
Quelle: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/15-quotes-from-chimamanda-adichie-that-have-change/

“Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie buch Americanah

Quelle: Americanah

“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.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie buch Americanah

Quelle: Americanah

“Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie buch Half of a Yellow Sun

Quelle: Half of a Yellow Sun

“How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie buch Americanah

Quelle: Americanah

“Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today because you don't want to sweat out this straightness. You're always battling to make your hair do what it wasn't meant to do.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie buch Americanah

Quelle: Americanah

“… there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie buch Americanah

Quelle: Americanah

“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.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie We Should All Be Feminists

Quelle: We Should All Be Feminists

“A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie We Should All Be Feminists

Quelle: We Should All Be Feminists

“Greatness depends on where you are coming from.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie buch Half of a Yellow Sun

Quelle: Half of a Yellow Sun

“She had always liked this image of herself as too much trouble, as different, and she sometimes thought of it as a carapace that kept her safe.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie buch Americanah

Quelle: Americanah

““ We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie

“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie

http://uzomediangr.com/tag/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-quotes, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

“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.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie buch Half of a Yellow Sun

Quelle: Half of a Yellow Sun

“This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie buch Half of a Yellow Sun

Quelle: Half of a Yellow Sun

“Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie buch Americanah

Quelle: Americanah (2013)

“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.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie We Should All Be Feminists

Quelle: We Should All Be Feminists

“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.”

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Quelle: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/15-quotes-from-chimamanda-adichie-that-have-change/

“There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie buch Half of a Yellow Sun

Quelle: Half of a Yellow Sun

“A woman at a certain age who is unmarried, our society teaches her to see it as a deep personal failure. And a man, after a certain age isn’t married, we just think he hasn’t come around to making his pick.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie We Should All Be Feminists

Quelle: We Should All Be Feminists

“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.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie buch Americanah

Quelle: Americanah

“My own definition is a feminist is a man or a woman who says, yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better. All of us, women and men, must do better.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie We Should All Be Feminists

Quelle: We Should All Be Feminists

“You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.”

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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie buch Half of a Yellow Sun

Quelle: Half of a Yellow Sun

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