Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Gabrielle Union
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S. Truett Cathy
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Rachel Maddow
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Park Bo-gum
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R. A. Salvatore
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Zbigniew Brzezinski
We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
Walter Crane
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Florence Nightingale
We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and oversight before ever putting another U.S. solider in harm's way.
Barbara Lee
I don't want to go about offending people; that's not my plan.
Karl Pilkington
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Vijender Singh
People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Amandla Stenberg
If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
Warren Farrell
I have always said that, more than 'big bang' reforms, it is every day what is happening, changing on the ground.
Anand Mahindra
(About Joe Jackson) First of all, he's sitting there with the pimp hat, and the tattooed drag queen eyebrows. Like maybe this whole time, he just has a separate drag character that he does at night.........named La Toya!
Kathy Griffin
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie