Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie citáty

„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

„“ 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.“

—  Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie

„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

„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.“

—  Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie

„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.“

—  Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie

„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

„Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.“

—  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

„Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.“

—  Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie

„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

„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, kniha Americanah

Zdroj: Americanah

„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