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

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• 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.”
  ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun 

• “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. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.”
  ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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  “She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.”
  ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

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  • “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.”

  ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
  • “Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.”

  ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • “We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.”

  ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus