
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie citáty
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Datum narození: 15. září 1977
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieová je nigérijská spisovatelka žijící ve Spojených státech amerických, hlásící se k feminismu.
Studovala lékařství a farmacii na Nigerijské univerzitě ve městě Nsukka, ale studium nedokončila a odešla do Spojených států amerických. Zde studovala komunikační vědu, politologii a tvůrčí psaní. Během studií začala psát svůj první román Purple Hibiscus , který vyšel roku 2003 a zaznamenal příznivý kritický ohlas. Za druhý román Půl žlutého slunce obdržela Orange Prize. Kniha byla v roce 2013 zfilmována. V tom roce vydala i třetí román Amerikána. Získala za něj National Book Critics Circle Award. Kniha vyšla ve více než dvaceti zemích. Vydala též knihu esejů Feminismus je pro každého .
Citáty Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

„Chci žít ve světě, v němž muži a ženy jsou šťastnější, kde jsou ženy skutečně rovny.“
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Originál: (de) Ich möchte in einer Welt leben, in der Männer und Frauen glücklicher sind, in der sie wirklich gleichberechtigt sind.
Zdroj: [Glückliches Schweden, spiegel, 2/2016, 2016-09-11, https://magazin.spiegel.de/SP/2016/2/141171636/index.html?utm_source=spon&utm_campaign=centerpage]
„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.“
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists
Zdroj: We Should All Be Feminists
„Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.“
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, kniha Americanah
Zdroj: Americanah
„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.“
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists
Zdroj: We Should All Be Feminists
„I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.“
— 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.“
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, kniha Half of a Yellow Sun
Zdroj: Half of a Yellow Sun
„This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.“
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, kniha Half of a Yellow Sun
Zdroj: Half of a Yellow Sun
„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.“
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists
Zdroj: We Should All Be Feminists
„Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.“
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, kniha Americanah
Zdroj: Americanah
„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.“
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists
Zdroj: We Should All Be Feminists
„There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.“
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, kniha Half of a Yellow Sun
Zdroj: 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.“
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists
Zdroj: We Should All Be Feminists
„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.“
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, kniha Half of a Yellow Sun
Zdroj: Half of a Yellow Sun