Nigerian - Writer | September 15, 1977 -
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
WomanMeBlackFeelAmericaEurope
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.
HomeThinkBackGoNowAtlanta
In America, I feel black with all of the rubbish that comes with it.
BlackFeelAmericaRubbishI Feel
To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once was.
ChildhoodCuriousSelfNostalgia
Evil is tolerable if purged of coarseness.
EvilTolerablePurged
There can be an extremist idea of purity. It's so easy to fall afoul of the ridiculously high standard set there.
EasyFallPurityHighIdeaSet
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.
ThinkKnowWayRightTribeOwn
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