How [stories] are told, who tells them, when theyโre told, how many stories are told โ are really dependent on power.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieI am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieBecause of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye โฆ 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 AdichieThat her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie