A Private Experience Quotes

“She cries quietly, her shoulders heaving up and down, not the kind of loud sobbing that the women Chika knows do, the kind that screams Hold me and comfort me because I cannot deal with this alone. The woman's crying is private, as though she is carrying out a necessary ritual that involves no one else.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck

“She will listen to BBC radio and hear the accounts of the deaths and the riots - "religious with undertones of ethnic tension" the voice will say. And she will fling the radio to the wall and a fierce red rage will run through her at how it has all been packaged and sanitized and made to fit into so few words, all those bodies.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck

“Like how the government of General Abacha was using its foreign policy to legitimize itself in the eyes of other African countries.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck