Adichie Single Story Quotes & Sayings

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. — Maurice Sendak

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. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to inquire whether some functional organization would not serve to formulate and manifest public opinion better than the existing methods. It is not irrelevant to the point that a score of passages could be cited in which Jefferson refers to the American Government as an experiment. — John Dewey

My daughter and I are very close, we speak every single day and I call her every day and I say the same thing, "pick up, I know you're there." — Joan Rivers

Anything's possible in Human Nature," Chacko said in his Reading Aloud voice. Talking to the darkness now, suddenly insensitive to his little fountain-haired niece. "Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy."
Of the four things that were Possible in Human Nature, Rahel thought that Infinnate Joy sounded the saddest. Perhaps because of the way Chacko said it.
Infinnate Joy. With a church sound to it. Like a sad fish with fins all over. — Arundhati Roy

We are here to take chances, and fail, and keep trying. — Jodi Lynn Anderson

The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s. — Sarah Hall

When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If you learn to look at the worldly madness through spiritual eyes, you will begin to see divine balance and sanity. — Bryant McGill

Don't feel so small and condemn yourself. You are the universe, so love and compliment yourself. — Debasish Mridha

My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea. — Eric Bristow

I know that if you spend enough on each person person in a village, you will change their lives. If you put in enough resources-enough mzungu,foreigners, technical assistance, and money-lives change. I know that....The problem is, when you walk, what happens? -Simon Bland — Nina Munk