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  1. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ Half of a Yellow Sun

    This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.
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  2. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ Half of a Yellow Sun

    The truth has become an insult.
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  3. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ Half of a Yellow Sun

    And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.
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  4. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ Half of a Yellow Sun

    She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.
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  5. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ Half of a Yellow Sun

    The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new world; rather, it is that the majority have not been given the tools to negotiate this new world.
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  6. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ Half of a Yellow Sun

    You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.
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  7. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ Half of a Yellow Sun

    ...my point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe...I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed to be as different as possible from his . But I was Igbo before the white man came."
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  8. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ Half of a Yellow Sun

    There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.
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  9. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ Half of a Yellow Sun

    This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.
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  10. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ Half of a Yellow Sun

    You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?" Aunty Ifeka said. "Your life belongs to you and you alone.
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