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I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Back Been Child Conventions Happy Possible Push Question Regard Societal Still Think I Think

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Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off and on in America for a number of years and so have accumulated observations, found things interesting, been moved to tell stories about them.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: About Accumulate Always America Been Come Conscious Different Different Place Each Entirely Found Interesting Lived Moved Novels Number Observations Off Place Processes Stories Tell Them Things Years

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I look young. I heard this said so often that it became irritating. I once worked as a babysitter for a woman who, the first time we met, said she didn't want somebody in high school. I was 22. Later, I realised that in certain places being female and looking 'young' meant it was more difficult to be taken seriously, so I turned to make-up.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Babysitter Became Being Certain Difficult Female First First Time Heard High High School Irritating Later Look Looking Make-Up Meant Met More Often Once Places Realised Said School Seriously She Somebody Taken Time Turned Want Who Woman Worked Young

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My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Colour Genes Greatest Mostly Mother Skin Smooth Thanks Vanity

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I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a daddy's girl, and even though I would rather my smile wasn't crooked, there is something moving for me about having a mouth exactly like my father's.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: About Am Calls Cerebral Crooked Daddy Doctor Even Exactly Father Girl Having Like Lips Me Mouth Moving Much Rather Side Sister Slope Smile Something Though Very Would I Am

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The problem with looking in the mirror is that you never know how you will feel about what you see. Sometimes, when my hormones are out of sync, I have no interest in the mirror, and if I do look I think everything is all wrong. Other times, I am quite pleased with what I see.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: About Am Everything Feel Hormones How Interest Know Look Looking Mirror Never No Interest Other Out Pleased Problem Quite See Sometimes Sync The Problem With Think Times Will Wrong You I Think I Am I See

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Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: About Africa African Aids American Books Certain Come Exotic Expectations Maybe Poverty Think Wildlife Will Write Writers

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What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that simple. You have to do more than go there and adopt a child or show us pictures of children with flies in their eyes. That simplifies Africa.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Adopt Africa African Child Children Eyes Find Flies Go Madonna More Pictures Problematic Saving Say She Show Simple Suggestion Than Us You

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If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Creative Creative Writing Exist Just Like Living Make Necessary People Programmes Us Very Writing

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Biography

Nationality: Nigerian

Type: Writer

Born: September 15th, 1977

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