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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie

Datum narození: 15. září 1977

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie je nigérijská spisovatelka.

Citáty Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie

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nigérijská spisovatelka 1977
„Chci žít ve světě, v němž muži a ženy jsou šťastnější, kde jsou ženy skutečně rovny.“
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Nigerian writer 1977
„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.“We Should All Be Feminists
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Nigerian writer 1977
„The only reason you say that race was not an issue is because you wish it was not. We all wish it was not. But it’s a lie. I came from a country where race was not an issue; I did not think of myself as black and I only became black when I came to America. When you are black in America and you fall in love with a white person, race doesn’t matter when you’re alone together because it’s just you and your love. But the minute you step outside, race matters. But we don’t talk about it. We don’t even tell our white partners the small things that piss us off and the things we wish they understood better, because we’re worried they will say we’re overreacting, or we’re being too sensitive. And we don’t want them to say, Look how far we’ve come, just forty years ago it would have been illegal for us to even be a couple blah blah blah, because you know what we’re thinking when they say that? We’re thinking why the fuck should it ever have been illegal anyway? But we don’t say any of this stuff. We let it pile up inside our heads and when we come to nice liberal dinners like this, we say that race doesn’t matter because that’s what we’re supposed to say, to keep our nice liberal friends comfortable. It’s true. I speak from experience.“Americanah
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Nigerian writer 1977
„I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.“
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„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.“Half of a Yellow Sun
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„Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.“Americanah
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„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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„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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Nigerian writer 1977
„Some people ask: “Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?” Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general—but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.“We Should All Be Feminists
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„If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It's easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here's to possibilities of friendship and connection and understanding.“Americanah
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„This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.“Half of a Yellow Sun
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Nigerian writer 1977
„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.“We Should All Be Feminists
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Nigerian writer 1977
„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.“We Should All Be Feminists
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Nigerian writer 1977
„We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. But the reverse is not the case. We don’t teach boys to care about being likable. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons. All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women.“We Should All Be Feminists
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„Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.“Americanah
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Nigerian writer 1977
„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.“

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