Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Our humanitarian aid system is sick and needs to be fixed. It needs to get a reality check and get back humanity.

Joanne Liu

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2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction.

Matt Taibbi

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Since I do seven different styles of martial arts, I don't foresee myself fighting the same in any two movies. I think every fighting style should fit the character that's doing the fighting.

Michael Jai White

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I learned that public service is a privilege that must be based on moral foundations.

Shimon Peres

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I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!

Shirley Temple

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My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'

Roger Ebert

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It's no mistake that the moment of impregnation is called conception: at first, parenthood is nothing more than an idea.

Michael Redhill

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I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving export performance, and sustaining growth, in a way that is more sound and permanent.

Lucas Papademos

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The difference between being in the closet and out of the closet as a gay man is such a huge shift. I feel so connected still to that 22-year-old, but the idea that I was not open with that part of my life - which I am now so open about - is sort of surreal.

Jonathan Groff

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Being from Canada, we never had, like, the basketball games live on TV.

Anthony Bennett

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I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.

ASAP Rocky

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From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work, which was in a couple of Broadway theaters, to Howard Stern's studio, and to 30 Rock for 'Letterman' and 'SNL.' Even in New York, walking to work is homey and folksy, like living in a small town.

Penn Jillette

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