Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined."

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"If you don’t understand, ask questions. If you’re uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It’s easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more."

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there."

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in."

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that."

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be."

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

""Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.""

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in."

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

""As you graduate, as you deal with your excitement and your doubts today, I urge you to try and create the world you want to live in. Minister to the world in a way that can change it. Minister radically in a real, active, practical, get your hands dirty way.""

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"As you graduate, as you deal with your excitement and your doubts today, I urge you to try and create the world you want to live in. Minister to the world in a way that can change it. Minister radically in a real, active, practical, get your hands dirty way."

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie