Frasi di Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie è una scrittrice nigeriana di etnia igbo.

Le sue opere principali sono Ibisco viola , storia incentrata sui traumi causati da un padre fanatico religioso; Metà di un sole giallo , che narra la vicenda di due sorelle sullo sfondo della guerra del Biafra e Americanah , un romanzo ambientato tra gli Stati Uniti e la Nigeria.

Nel 2005 ha vinto il Commonwealth Writers' Prize per la categoria "First Best Book" con il libro Ibisco viola; nel 2009 ha ricevuto in Italia il premio internazionale "Nonino" per Metà di un sole giallo.

Nel dicembre del 2012 Adichie ha parlato di femminismo per TEDxEuston in un intervento dal titolo We should all be feminists. Il suo discorso è stato in parte campionato nella canzone del 2013 Flawless della cantante statunitense Beyoncé, attirando ulteriore attenzione. Nel maggio 2015 l'intero intervento è stato pubblicato da Einaudi nella collana Vele con titolo Dovremmo essere tutti femministi.

✵ 15. Settembre 1977
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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie: Frasi in inglese

“Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist.”

Origine: Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

“People will selectively use “tradition” to justify anything.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie libro Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Origine: Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

“I like politics and history and am happiest when having a good argument about ideas.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie Dovremmo essere tutti femministi

Origine: We Should All Be Feminists

“I was stained by failure.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie libro Purple Hibiscus

Origine: Purple Hibiscus

“Teach her to question language. Language is the repository of our prejudices, our beliefs, our assumptions.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie libro Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Origine: Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

“I don’t think I’m more inherently likely to do domestic work, or childcare ... It doesn’t come pre-programmed in your vagina, right?”

On how she views gender as a social construct in “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘This could be the beginning of a revolution’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/28/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-feminism-racism-sexism-gender-metoo in The Guardian (2018 Apr 28)

“I don’t think sexism is worse than racism, it’s impossible even to compare…It’s that I feel lonely in my fight against sexism, in a way that I don’t feel in my fight against racism. My friends, my family, they get racism, they get it. The people I’m close to who are not black get it. But I find that with sexism you are constantly having to explain, justify, convince, make a case for.”

On why sexism is at times a more difficult argument for her than racism in “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘This could be the beginning of a revolution’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/28/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-feminism-racism-sexism-gender-metoo in The Guardian (2018 Apr 28)

“I don’t think I’m more inherently likely to do domestic work, or childcare … It doesn’t come pre-programmed in your vagina, right?”

On how she views gender as a social construct in “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘This could be the beginning of a revolution’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/28/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-feminism-racism-sexism-gender-metoo in The Guardian (2018 Apr 28)

“"In Nigeria I'm not black…We don't do race in Nigeria. We do ethnicity a lot, but not race. My friends here don't really get it. Some of them sound like white Southerners from 1940. They say, 'Why are black people complaining about race? Racism doesn't exist!'”

It's just not a part of their existence."

On how views of race differ in Nigeria than the United States in “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘I Wanted To Claim My Own Name’” https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-novelist-ted-speaker-interview in Vogue (2015 Nov 3)

“Because we write fiction we mine our souls. Of course you put yourself into your fiction, your fiction is you.”

On the connection between the personal and fictional world in “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘This could be the beginning of a revolution’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/28/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-feminism-racism-sexism-gender-metoo in The Guardian (2018 Apr 28)

“I cannot control even the dreams that I have made.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie libro Purple Hibiscus

Purple Hibiscus (2003)

“So true - when people see an absence of women in engineering, science and technology, then it becomes self-reinforcing.”

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/15-quotes-from-chimamanda-adichie-that-have-change/
On Gender

“Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.”

On Money and wealth
Origine: https://sheleadsafrica.org/20-powerful-chimamanda-adichie-quotes-for-todays-boss-women/

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