Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

I think there's a racial outcome to a lot of what goes in America, but I don't think race is always the reason.

The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable. ... We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.

We live in a really racist culture and it's got to be addressed.

Racial inequality is a big problem.

Here's the thing. When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it's all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they're not as crazy. To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before.

This is the United States of America and unfortunately, race still matters to a lot of people. The evil head of racism doesn't hide, it sticks its head up.

Race remains a significant challenge in America.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'

You have to talk about the issue of race, but I can talk to white constituents about racism, if I at least acknowledge that life is not a crystal stair for them either.

When you say black lives matter, that's inherently racist.

Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at the shrine of the established social order and of the economic development into which I was born.

Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.

Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic opportunity.

In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.

If white America is ready to extend complete democratic rights to colored people, there will be no race, no racial tension and no racial prejudice on either side, but we can be sure that any movement 'back to normalcy' in race relations will be bitterly resisted by colored people. It is now up to white America to make its choice...

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

I think race in America is a huge one. That's something that needs to be confronted, certainly.

It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.

I remember classes in college where the professor was espousing certain theories about how blacks were inherently less intelligent. But I learned a long time ago to give people the benefit of the doubt, not to assume that somebody was reacting to you because of race.

If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.

I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did.

The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust.

I would think black people think everything is about race. They are the ones who are on the outside of the game. They are the ones who face it every day.

Despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.