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I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Absorb Childhood Come Considered Discovered Exotic First Friend Games Important Later Many Mockingbird Mysteries Novel Played Read Simply Summer Treasures Trees Understand Way Why Would Years

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Sometimes novels are considered 'important' in the way medicine is - they taste terrible and are difficult to get down your throat, but are good for you.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Access Africa African Agency Also Clear Dynamic Failure Fair Fish Fishing Gifts Leadership Limp Me Nations Need People Place Pond Realize Voices Were Where Whether While Wonder Would I Wonder

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I must have been an annoying child.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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From the very beginning, I think it's been quite clear that there's no way I could possibly say that trans women are not women. It's the sort of thing to me that's obvious, so I start from that obvious premise.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Been Beginning Clear Could Me Obvious Possibly Premise Quite Say Sort Start Thing Think Very Way Women Women Are I Think

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I think that because human difference for so long, in all its various forms, has been the root of so much oppression, sometimes there's the impulse to say let's deny the difference, as though by wishing away the difference we can then wish away the oppression.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Away Because Been Deny Difference Forms Human Impulse Long Much Oppression Root Say Sometimes Then Think Though Various Wish Wishing I Think

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Evil is tolerable if purged of coarseness.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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I like the U.S. and feel gratitude towards it.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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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

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I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: About Authority Details End Fiction Know Life Means My Own Only Own Surface Up Using Well Which Write I Can

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Biography

Nationality: Nigerian

Type: Writer

Born: September 15th, 1977

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