Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

There Was A Certain Luxury To Charity That She Could Not Identify With And Did Not Have. To Take "charity" For Granted, To Revel In This Charity Towards People Whom One Did Not Know - Perhaps It Came From Having Had A Yesterday And Having Today And Expecting To Have Tomorrow. She Envied Them This ... Ifemelu Wanted, Suddenly And Desperately, To Be From The Country Of People Who Gave And Not Those Who Received, To Be One Of Those Who Had And Could Therefore Bask In The Grace Of Having Given. To Be Among Those Who Could Afford Copious Pity And Empathy.

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