I think the Left doesn’t know how to be a tribe in the way the Right does. The Left is very cannibalistic. It eats its own. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Read Quote
I was tired of everyone saying that when you write about race in America, it has to be nuanced, it has to be subtle, it has to be this and that. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Read Quote
I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Read Quote
This idea of feminism as a party to which only a select few people get to come – this is why so many women, particularly women of colour, feel alienated from mainstream western academic feminism. Because don’t we want it to be mainstream? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Read Quote
For me, feminism is a movement for which the end goal is to make itself no longer needed. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Read Quote
I think that because human difference for so long, in all its various forms, has been the root of so much oppression, sometimes there’s the impulse to say let’s deny the difference, as though by wishing away the difference we can then wish away the oppression. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Read Quote
I think the history of western feminism is one that is fraught with racism, and I think it’s important to acknowledge that and, at the same time, to say that feminism is not the western invention, that my great-grandmother in what is now south-western Nigeria is feminist. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Read Quote
I think people are frightened of saying what they think, and I think that’s a bad thing for society. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Read Quote
There is, for me, as a black woman, as an African woman, a sense of possibility in America that I don’t feel when I’m in Europe. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Read Quote
