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

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: America Black Feel Rubbish I Feel

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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to that huge number of people writing here when there are so few people writing about somewhere else.

~Chinua Achebe

Topics: About Add America Else Few Few People Here Huge Huge Number Lack Me Novels Number People Seems Somewhere Somewhere Else Therefore Wasteful Would Writers Writing

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I'd done my time in corporate America, from McDonald's making shakes to Morgan Stanley making deals and, yet, I felt awfully constrained by the uniform - not just my clothes, but how I felt I needed to conform - that a traditional job required me to wear.

~Chip Conley

Topics: America Clothes Conform Constrained Corporate Corporate America Deals Done Felt How Job Just Making Mcdonald Me Morgan My Time Needed Required Shakes Stanley Time Traditional Uniform Wear

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Daniel Goleman has proven that two-thirds of the success in business is based upon our Emotional Intelligence as opposed to our IQ or our level of experience. As we look for the next crop of future CEOs, maybe it's time for America's corporations to start interviewing grads from the psychology master's programs rather than the M.B.A. programs.

~Chip Conley

Topics: America Based Business Ceos Corporations Crop Daniel Emotional Experience Future Intelligence Interviewing Level Look Master Maybe Next Opposed Our Programs Proven Psychology Rather Start Success Than Time Two-Thirds Iq

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San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.

~Chita Rivera

Topics: Also America Angels Away Blown Francisco Just San San Francisco Understand Us Well

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As I lived on in America, I got to truly know the people of this country - so many kind and wonderful people, people of so many races - who helped me in so many ways. Who became my friends. I realized that underneath our different accents, habits, foods, religions, ways of thinking, we shared a common humanity.

~Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Topics: Accents America Became Common Country Different Foods Friends Got Habits Helped Humanity Kind Know Lived Many Me Our People Races Realized Religions Shared Thinking Truly Underneath Ways Who Wonderful Wonderful People

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I started putting down my thoughts on paper out of loneliness while I was studying in America. I was very close to my grandfather, and when he died, I couldn't visit home. I started scribbling those thoughts.

~Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Topics: America Close Died Down Grandfather He Home Loneliness Out Paper Putting Scribbling Started Studying Those Thoughts Very Visit While

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I came into Chicago in winter - I'd never been so cold in my life! I was very homesick, and a poor student at that time. America seemed so different and so filled with amazing things - and almost all of them were out of my reach.

~Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Topics: Almost Almost All Amazing Amazing Things America Been Came Chicago Cold Different Filled Homesick Life My Life Never Out Poor Reach Seemed Student Them Things Time Very Were Winter I Came

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