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“C'est étrange, à chaque événement majeur dans ma vie, j'ai toujours pensé que tu étais la seule personne qui puisse me comprendre.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie livre Americanah

Americanah

“Il avait ri et pensé qu'il était avec elle comme il n'avait jamais été avec une autre femme : gai, vif, plein d'entrain. Quand ils avaient quitté le restaurant un peu plus tard, il l'avait regardée faire un pas de côté pour éviter les flaques d'eau près de la porte d'entrée, et avait eu envie d'aplanir pour elle toutes les routes de Lagos.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Citations en anglais

“Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists
Source: https://sheleadsafrica.org/20-powerful-chimamanda-adichie-quotes-for-todays-boss-women/

“She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie livre Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

“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.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie livre Purple Hibiscus

Source: Purple Hibiscus

“The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new world; rather, it is that the majority have not been given the tools to negotiate this new world.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie livre Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

“Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Source: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/15-quotes-from-chimamanda-adichie-that-have-change/

“Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

“Your feminist premise should be: I matter. I matter equally. Not “if only.” Not “as long as.” I matter equally. Full stop.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie livre Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Source: Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

“The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie livre Purple Hibiscus

Source: Purple Hibiscus

“I am trying to unlearn many lessons of gender I internalized while growing up. But I sometimes still feel vulnerable in the face of gender expectations.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

“I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is just as obvious to everyone else.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

“If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over, it becomes normal.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

“She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie livre The Thing Around Your Neck

Source: The Thing Around Your Neck

“And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie livre Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

“Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl.
'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything.
Ever.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Source: Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

“This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie livre Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

“Being defiant can be a good thing sometimes," Aunty Ifeoma said. "Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing when it is used right.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie livre Purple Hibiscus

Source: Purple Hibiscus

“But by far the worst thing we do to males—by making them feel they have to be hard—is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

“You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie livre Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

“The truth has become an insult.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie livre Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

“Teach her that if you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie livre Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Source: Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

“I'm chasing you. I'm going to chase you until you give this a chance.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie livre Americanah

Source: Americanah

“Academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stayed securely in them.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie livre Americanah

Source: Americanah

“They never said “I don’t know.” They said, instead, “I’m not sure,” which did not give any information but still suggested the possibility of knowledge.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie livre Americanah

Source: Americanah (2013)

“There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie livre Americanah

Source: https://sheleadsafrica.org/20-powerful-chimamanda-adichie-quotes-for-todays-boss-women/

“They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and of the heartbroken desire to see a place made whole again.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie livre Americanah

Source: Americanah

“Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie livre Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

“To have money, it seemed, was to be consumed by money.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie livre Americanah

Source: Americanah

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