Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

In primary school in south-eastern Nigeria, I was taught that Hosni Mubarak was the president of Egypt. I learned the same thing in secondary school. In university, Mubarak was still president of Egypt. I came to assume, subconsciously, that he - and others like Paul Biya in Cameroon and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya - would never leave.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Larry Hovis
- Time
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Rafik Hariri
- Want
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Quentin Crisp
- Time
- Live
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

O. Henry
- Man
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