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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life I Am Write Real Real Life

My long, blonde hair has been my trademark ever since I started modelling in the Seventies, when I was scouted sunbathing in St Tropez.

Hair Blonde Long Seventies Started

I can be like that: forgetting how hard it was to do something after I'm past it.

Past I Can Hard Forgetting Something

I have always liked my hair when it's braided, because if I don't, it kind of runs in my eyes when I hit.

Eyes Hair Kind Always Because Hit

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

Love Peace You Write Right Seem

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

World Revenge Famous Becoming Get

However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap.

Me See Through May Academics Crap

I got a Cadillac Escalade. Put some rims on it, threw a couple TV's in there, and installed a system. I stuck my Xbox in there. I had to go for it.

Go Go For It System Cadillac Stuck

It is shocking that the screen does not reflect the way the world is and the diversity in the world... What the world really looks like should be on screen, and it isn't.

Diversity World Looks Way Reflect

I don't want to be one of those kids who gets famous and then changes and becomes cocky. That's why it's so important to me to try and take a photo with every girl who comes to see me.

Lucky Blue Smith

Girl Me Famous Important Want Why

My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them.

Jason Scott Lee

Father Mother Big Take Used Arts

While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team's victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent.

Team Celebrate Doing Way Coach

I was always on my swag since I was younger.

Always Younger Since

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