I didn't want to be apologetic about my love story, and I think to be willing to write about love you have to be willing to sound foolish. I wanted to write about foolish and goofy love and different relationships. I wanted to write about interracial relationships in a way that does not pretend as if race does not exist.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHow easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieStories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie