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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
Tags: will, never, poverty, people

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I think white women need to wake up and say, 'Not all women are white,' three times in front of the mirror.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Tags: wake-up, think, mirror, women
In America, I feel black with all of the rubbish that comes with it.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Tags: i-feel, america, feel, black
Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Tags: debate, culture, time, women
'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all good literature should: It entertains you.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Tags: always, think, you, good
Evil is tolerable if purged of coarseness.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Tags: purged, tolerable, evil
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