Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that simple. You have to do more than go there and adopt a child or show us pictures of children with flies in their eyes. That simplifies Africa.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildrenEyesSimpleChildYouFind

Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?

Joan Kirner

WomenMenDoneWhyQuestionAsk

My drawing, like that of most cartoonists, is intended first of all to be functional: to create believable space and communicate information. My strongest point in drawing has always been my ability to show characters' nonverbal communication through facial expression and posture.

Jessica Abel

CommunicationSpaceDrawingCreate

In a world where it is so easy to neglect, deny, corrupt and suppress the truth, the scientist may find his discipline severe. For him, truth is so seldom the sudden light that shows new order and beauty; more often, truth is the uncharted rock that sinks his ship in the dark.

John Cornforth

BeautyTruthLightDisciplineWorld

I want the young guys to say, 'How old is this guy that's blocking me every play?'

Andrew Whitworth

MePlayYoungSayWantOld

The IRS should and must focus on the most important and most egregious and the most in need.

Ander Crenshaw

FocusImportantNeedMustIRSMost

The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing.

Robert Rodriguez

ChallengeDoingEasyWorthYouKnow

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Jean Nidetch

DestinyChanceChoiceYour

My entire life is a single body of work.

Rob Dyrdek

LifeWorkLife Is ABodySingle

Nuclear countries are those countries that are big and powerful. It is difficult to criticize them and try to lead them onto a humanitarian path. But we can only do what we can and appeal to their sense of reason.

Masatoshi Koshiba

PathPowerfulTryDifficultReason

When I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved.

Loretta Swit

SchoolLovedSameThingsEnjoyed

Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.

Janice Dickinson

MomPresentGrowYouGrow UpUp

Dogs are not 'people' of another species. They are another species. To train and care for them properly, to show them how to live in our complex world, requires first and foremost that we understand that.

Jon Katz

LivePeopleWorldCareTrainFirst

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