Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Profession : Writer

Birth : September 15, 1977

From the very beginning, I think it's been quite clear that there's no way I could possibly say that trans women are not women. It's the sort of thing to me that's obvious, so I start from that obvious premise.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

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

In America, I feel black with all of the rubbish that comes with it.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There can be an extremist idea of purity. It's so easy to fall afoul of the ridiculously high standard set there.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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