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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Oppression Olympics is what smart liberal Americans say to make you feel stupid and to make you shut up. But there IS an oppression olympics going on. American racial minorities - blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Jews - all get shit from white folks, different kinds of shit but shit still. Each secretly believes that it gets the worst shit. So, no, there is no United League of the Oppressed. However, all the others think they're better than blacks because, well, they're not black.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

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“What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.”
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“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
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“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“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.”
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