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I don't think it's a good thing to talk about women's issues being exactly the same as the issues of trans women because I don't think that's true.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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I think the history of western feminism is one that is fraught with racism, and I think it's important to acknowledge that and, at the same time, to say that feminism is not the western invention, that my great-grandmother in what is now south-western Nigeria is feminist.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Acknowledge Feminism Feminist Fraught History Important Invention Nigeria Now Racism Same Same Time Say The History Of Think Time Western I Think

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There is, for me, as a black woman, as an African woman, a sense of possibility in America that I don't feel when I'm in Europe.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: African America Black Europe Feel Me Possibility Sense Woman

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When I go back home now, when I go back to Nigeria now, I get off the plane in Lagos and I just don't think of race. I get on the plane and arrive in Atlanta, and immediately I'm aware of race.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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In America, I feel black with all of the rubbish that comes with it.

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There can be an extremist idea of purity. It's so easy to fall afoul of the ridiculously high standard set there.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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I think the Left doesn't know how to be a tribe in the way the Right does. The Left is very cannibalistic. It eats its own.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Biography

Nationality: Nigerian

Type: Writer

Born: September 15th, 1977

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