Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

Some men feel threatened by the idea of feminism. This comes, I think, from the insecurity triggered by how boys are brought up, how their sense of self-worth is diminished if they are not 'naturally' in charge as men.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: nigerian
  • Birth: September 15, 1977

Topics

MenInsecurityThinkFeelSelf-Worth

The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our nation's fiscal house in order.

Jim Jeffords

BudgetPrioritiesHouseImportant

For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970.

John McGahern

CommunityPeopleWorldElectricity

Effective fund-raising is based on relationships.

Jeffrey Deitch

RelationshipsEffectiveBased

I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that's how they talk. That's how I talk a lot of the time. So I'm not trying to advance a social cause.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

TimeChampionTryingTalkWrite

When I was working with Reebok, Paul Fineman sent me to see David Stern to try to explain to him, basically, the tanning of America: That all rappers wanted to be basketball players and basketball players wanted to be rappers.

Steve Stoute

MeBasketballAmericaTryHimSee

Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children.

Little Richard

ChildrenSupportMeSpeakRockMama

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

Jean Chretien

HistorySocietyYouLookEvolution

While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work.

Janet Yellen

WorkGovernmentCapitalismBelieve

I grew up in Africa surrounded by a lot of culture. It's made me aware that the world is a big place.

Jann Klose

CultureMeWorldPlaceAfricaBig

All cannot rule, nor can all be ruled. All cannot plow, nor can all sow, nor reap. No more can all neglect such employments, else the race would become extinct. Each has his business to perform, his part to act. It is a duty he owes to the rest as well as to himself.

Joseph P. Bradley

BusinessRestDutyRaceBecomeMore

Motherhood is nitty and gritty and brutal and wonderful, but everything I read is about the wonderful parts. Sometimes, you're really in the trenches!

Constance Marie

MotherhoodYouSometimesEverything

Just reskinning games with our intellectual property is not an appealing prospect for opportunity. That isn't something that creates long-term value for shareholders.

Bobby Kotick

OpportunityValueIntellectualGames

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