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Incantations and Other Stories

by Anjana Appachana

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Dec 26, 2014 03:22AM

“I’m Vincent,” Obinze said, when they met in the back room. “I’m Dee.” A pause. “No, you’re not English. You can pronounce it. My real name is Duerdinhito, but the English, they cannot pronounce, so they call me Dee.” “Duerdinhito,” Obinze repeated. “Yes!” A delighted smile.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

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“I didn't know I was even supposed to HAVE issues until I came to America”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

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“As they walked out of the store, Ifemelu said, “I was waiting for her to ask ‘Was it the one with two eyes or the one with two legs?’ Why didn’t she just ask ‘Was it the black girl or the white girl?’”
Ginika laughed. “Because this is America. You’re supposed to pretend that you don’t notice certain things.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

tags: america, pretense, race

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“...I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend of a friend, and just listening to her talk is scary. The semiotic dialetics of intertextual modernity. Which makes no sense at all. Sometimes I feel that they live in a parallel universe of academia speaking acadamese instead of English and they don't really know what's happening in the real world.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

tags: academia, elitism, english, funny, graduate-school, intellects, language, long-words, pomposity, university

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“In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in the movies about the civil rights era. Here’s the thing: the manifestation of racism has changed but the language has not. So if you haven’t lynched somebody then you can’t be called a racist. If you’re not a bloodsucking monster, then you can’t be called a racist. Somebody has to be able to say that racists are not monsters.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

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