We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are. If we have sons, we don't mind knowing about our sons' girlfriends, but our daughters' boyfriends? God forbid. But of course when the time is right, we expect those girls to bring back the perfect man to be their husband.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieShow a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePapa sat down at the table and poured his tea from the china tea set with pink flowers on the edges. I waited for him to ask Jaja and me to take a sip, as he always did. A love sip, he called it, because you shared the little things you loved with the people you love.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieI had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie