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While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Central Changing Cities Closer Conquered Did Each Enjoyed Events Half Inventing Minor None Other Placing Play Playing Station Sun Than Things Time Town Towns Train While Writing Yellow

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I find that women... deal with immigration differently. And I'm interested in that.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Deal Differently Find Immigration Interested Women

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I sort of consider myself a Nigerian who spends a lot of time in the U.S.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Consider Lot Myself Nigerian Sort Time Who

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'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all good literature should: It entertains you.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Always Been Does Drawn Fiction Good Here Kind Literature Old-Fashioned Realism Should Social Sweetness Think You I Think

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I've always been curious about how much of our cultural baggage we bring to what and how we read. I suspect we bring a lot, although we like to think we don't.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: About Although Always Baggage Been Bring Cultural Curious How How Much Like Lot Much Our Read Suspect Think

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I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Consuming Deeply Inanimate Like Nothing Own Things Treasure Way

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I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to me. It didn't matter whether the subject was Namibia or Egypt; I was expected to know, to explain.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Africa African Came Classes College Egypt Everyone Expected Explain Know Matter Me Realized States Subject Turned United United States Up Whenever Whether I Came

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I was tired of everyone saying that when you write about race in America, it has to be nuanced, it has to be subtle, it has to be this and that.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: About America Everyone Race Saying Subtle Tired Write You

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I'm a nice middle-class girl.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Girl Middle-Class Nice

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This idea of feminism as a party to which only a select few people get to come - this is why so many women, particularly women of colour, feel alienated from mainstream western academic feminism. Because don't we want it to be mainstream?

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Academic Alienated Because Colour Come Feel Feminism Few Few People Get Idea Mainstream Many Only Particularly Party People Select Want Western Which Why Women

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Biography

Nationality: Nigerian

Type: Writer

Born: September 15th, 1977

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