لقد شعرت دائماً أنه من المستحيل التعامل بشكل صحيح مع مكان أو شخص بدون إستصحاب كل القصص عن ذلك المكان وذلك الشخص. تبعات النظرة الآحادية هي هذه: أنها تجرّد الناس من الكرامة. إنها تجعل إعترافنا بتساوي إنسانيتنا صعب. وهي تؤكد كم أننا مختلفون بدلاً عن كم نحن متشابهون.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieEach time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieMots clés marriage
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.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieEugene has to stop doing God's job. God is big enough to do his own job. If God will judge our father for choosing to follow the way of our ancestors, then let God do the judging, not Eugene.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe 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 AdichieShe could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieNnamabia seemed fine to me, slipping his money into his anus and all.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePower is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieMots clés power stories stereotypes chimamanda-adichie
We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieMots clés history
...he did not want me to seek the whys, because there are some things that happen for which we can formulate no whys, for which whys simply do not exist and, perhaps, are not necessary.
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