Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleAmericanViewMediaPoverty

There's just no vision. You have no ground, no vision.

Jessi Colter

VisionYouGroundJust

We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.

John Banville

LoveToughDownTalkEveryoneJust

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

Angelina Jolie

LifeChallengesControlTakeUs

As a social concept, 'white' is profound in its meaning. It means people who either come from or appear to come from Europe, but it's necessarily a construct of oppression.

Robin DiAngelo

PeopleMeaningWhiteOppressionCome

The military is not a social experiment. The purpose of the military is kill people and break things. It's not to transform the culture by trying out some ideas that some people think would make us a different country and more diverse. The purpose is to protect America.

Mike Huckabee

CulturePurposePeopleIdeasThink

But I did have two months off between Loser and the start of Prozac Nation. So, it was supposed to be Jason time, right? My time to enjoy myself away from movies.

Jason Biggs

TimeMyselfStartLoserEnjoyRight

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

Joseph Stiglitz

WisdomResultsRunEconomistsSeem

There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.

Johnny Vegas

GreatJobThoughtYouPhoneThree

I made a bit of a stink. At the time, it was considered very bad form.

Diana Rigg

TimeBadMadeStinkFormVery

For me, I've always been one that reads a script and has been ready, wiling and able to go out and fight for parts.

Chris Klein

FightMeReadyGoAlwaysOut

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Anthony Hope

IgnorancePoetryWishYouSometimes

Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. And you must have a judge who is detached, who is independent, who is fair, who is committed only to those principles and not public pressures of other sort. That's the meaning of neutrality.

Anthony Kennedy

JudgeMeaningYouImportantMore

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