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“Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye … I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieChimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
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“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieChimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
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“If I had not grown up in Nigeria, and if all I knew about Africa were from popular images, I too would think that Africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals and incomprehensible people, fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and AIDS, unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind, white foreigner.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieChimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
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“Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieChimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
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“At about the age of seven … I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples, and they talked a lot about the weather: how lovely it was that the sun had come out. This despite the fact that I lived in Nigeria; we didn’t have snow, we ate mangoes, and we never talked about the weather, because there was no need to.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieChimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
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“[My college roommate] asked if she could listen to what she called my ‘tribal music,’ and was consequently very disappointed when I produced my tape of Mariah Carey.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on moving to the United States from NigeriaChimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
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“How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieChimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
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“Show a people as one thing — as only one thing — over and over again, and that is what they become.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieChimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
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