Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

In particular I want to talk about natural black hair, and how it's not just hair. I mean, I'm interested in hair in sort of a very aesthetic way, just the beauty of hair, but also in a political way: what it says, what it means.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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• 'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.

  

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• I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.

  

  Francine Pascal
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• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

  

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• The perfection of art is to conceal art.

  

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• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
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• It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.

  

  Salma Hayek
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• What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.

  

  Laura Moser
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• To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

  

  Samantha Morton
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• I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.

  

  Olivia Colman
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• The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.

  

  Sam Brownback
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• When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

  

  Jackson Pollock
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• It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.

  

  Yolanda Adams
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• I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.

  

  Kate Bush
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  • Enjoy
  • Television

• I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.

  

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• Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.

  

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• The public is a part of my real life.

  

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• We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
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  • Hair
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• Before the advent of the white man, black people were doing all kinds of things with their hair. The rejection of kinks and curls did come with the white man.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
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  • Black
  • Hair

• I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.

  

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• The people that I grew up with had no problem with my faith. They did, however, seem very concerned that I would starve to death during Ramadan. I would explain to them that I have enough fat to live off of for three whole months, so fasting from sunrise to sunset is a piece of cake.

  

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• In particular I want to talk about natural black hair, and how it's not just hair. I mean, I'm interested in hair in sort of a very aesthetic way, just the beauty of hair, but also in a political way: what it says, what it means.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Political
  • Black
  • Hair