Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.

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• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Tell
  • Whatever

• In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Democracy
  • Never
  • Criticism

• If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • You
  • Loss
  • Winner

• There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Serious
  • Capitalism
  • Toward

• I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Reading
  • Years
  • Become

• Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Things

• I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!

  

  Karen O
  • Really
  • Bass
  • Ace

• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • School
  • Power
  • Sun

• I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • You
  • Support
  • Tax

• My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Me
  • Feel

• I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

  

  Taylor Branch
  • Think
  • Free
  • Less

• When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Know
  • Wish
  • Restaurant

• I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Book

• Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Life
  • Family
  • Business

• The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Truth
  • End
  • Tell

• I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Think
  • Said
  • Go

• I'm confident and really optimistic.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Really
  • Optimistic
  • Confident

• In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.

  

  Otto Loewi
  • Nature
  • Free
  • Purpose

• Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Sacrifice
  • Race

• it's way too early for him to be talking anyhow but I see in his eyes something and I see in his eyes a voice and I see in his eyes a whole new set of words

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Way
  • Eyes
  • Voice

• One is forced to remember how far from 'self-expression' great poems are - what a strange compromise between the demands of the self, the world, and Poetry they actually represent.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • World
  • Great
  • Remember

• I've learned not to be such a show-off and to have a bit more empathy with humanity. Or at least to fake that.

  

  Martin McDonagh
  • Humanity
  • Fake
  • Empathy

• I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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