"I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there."
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know. "
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Half of a Yellow Sun)

"'You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.'"
— 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.'"
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Half of a Yellow Sun)