Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 65

If a nation and any nation on this earth could raise up the standard of personal responsibility in their society, you will in no time see a nation of virtuous people, developed and civilized.
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People begin to think that there is no natural process to success, hence the fraudulent nouveau riche (swindlers, drug pushers, 419 scammers etc.) begin to become respected in the society
Sunday Adelaja
A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick.
Ben Okri
The Laws Of Kingdom Of God Must Form The Basis For All Society
Sunday Adelaja
To Live In The Midst Of Communist Society Is To Unashamedly Proclaim A Life Of Holiness
Sunday Adelaja
If Governments Promote The Principles Of The Kingdom, Then We Will See An Established Society
Sunday Adelaja
The worth of a society is genuine if established on cardinal law of kingdom–love
Sunday Adelaja
Society establishment minus laws of God equals chaos and destruction
Sunday Adelaja
The activities in a society is determined by its establishment
Sunday Adelaja
Trust is the foundation of any society
Sunday Adelaja
God wants the church to become the initiator of the reformation and changes in the society
Sunday Adelaja
The answers to all the questions of the society are in the lessons of human history.
Sunday Adelaja
We need to start preparing ourselves for the changes we are anticipating in our society
Sunday Adelaja
A society that lives by worldly principles is slowly moving towards a global crisis in all areas.
Sunday Adelaja
Everyone has his sphere of influence or territory in a society, which is a place where he is called to bring God’s presence
Sunday Adelaja
The destiny of your land is in the hands of the church and her willingness to declare the position of God in the society
Sunday Adelaja
A society that lives by worldly principles is slowly moving towards a global crisis in all areas
Sunday Adelaja
The answers to all the questions of the society are in the lessons of human history
Sunday Adelaja
Messages of instant gratification leads to a corrupt society
Sunday Adelaja
Let us restore trust back to our society
Sunday Adelaja
To Have Thousands Transformed In The Society Is To Lack Unity
Sunday Adelaja
Our country cannot be truly blessed if God does not become the head of the society
Sunday Adelaja
God wants us to be leaders in all levels of society and to be in charge of the society
Sunday Adelaja
Discovery is meant to fill in the need of the society
Sunday Adelaja
Christians, as messengers of God should bring restoration to this earth, become the people who can reform society and the country
Sunday Adelaja
The foundation upon which any society is built is called values.
Sunday Adelaja
Diligence, hard work, perseverance, excellence are the values that will make us have developed society.
Sunday Adelaja
The value system of any society comes from the homes.
Sunday Adelaja
We cause havoc to our society when we only preach miracles.
Sunday Adelaja
Violation Of The Law Of Universe Brings Devastation Results To The Society
Sunday Adelaja
If the image of God takes his proper position in society, then many will want to come to God
Sunday Adelaja
We pull back our society when we tell people to only pray for miracles.
Sunday Adelaja
It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so.
Felix Okoye
You know how the story ends. He escaped and went on to become the greatest chief Suntown ever had. He never built a shrine or a temple or even a shack in the name of Tia. In the Great Book, her name is never mentioned again. He never mused about her or even asked where she was buried. Tia was a virgin. She was beautiful. She was poor. And she was a girl. It was her duty to sacrifice her life for his.
Nnedi Okorafor
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we ´should' be rather than recognizing how we are.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. But I am also hopeful, because I believe deeply in the ability of human beings to remake themselves for the better.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Today, we live in a vastly different world. The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes. A man is as likely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative, creative. We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender, or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Other men might respond by saying: Okay, this is interesting, but I don’t think like that. I don’t even think about gender. Maybe not. And that is part of the problem. That many men do not actively think about gender or notice gender.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
​If we do something over and over again, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over again, it becomes normal. If only boys are made class monitors, then at some point we will all think, even if unconsciously, that the class monitor has to be a boy. If we keep seeing only men as heads of corporations, it starts to seem 'natural' that only men should be heads of corporations. ​
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The white feminist becomes the CEO. The black feminist becomes the exiled rebel. The white feminist speaks about teaching literacy like i should thank her, hold her hand, kiss her for teaching children of darker skin. The black feminist should be grateful. The black feminist wears her natural hair, she is called ‘too rebellious’. The white feminist cuts her hair, she is brave. The white feminist gets featured on TIME. The black feminist is the fine print.
Ijeoma Umebinyuo
Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We do not.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Gender matters everywhere in the world. And I would like today to ask what we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We define masculinity in very narrow way. Masculinity is hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage. We teach boys to be afraid of fear, of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves, because they have to be, in Nigerian-speak-- a hard man.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please these men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A man is likely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative and creative. We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over it becomes normal.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I should never call myself a feminist since feminists are women who are unhappy because they cannot find husbands.So I decided to call myself a Happy Feminist.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Each time they ignore me, I feel invisible. I want to tell them that I am just as human as the man, just as worthy of acknowledgement. These are the little things, but sometimes it is the little things that sting the most.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Stop the idea that a woman’s beauty is for a man’s gaze, that you have the right to touch her. This idea that she must smile and accept unwanted approaches even when she is clearly uncomfortable. Just because you call a woman beautiful does not mean you have the right to behave like her beauty belongs to you. There are women healing from scars gotten from men who have called them beautiful yet offered them pain. The beauty of a woman is hers and hers alone. There are triggers for some women, respect this and know this. The beauty of a woman is hers and hers alone.
Ijeoma Umebinyuo
But by far the worst thing we do to males--by making them feel they have to be hard--is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way boys are. If we have sons, we don’t mind knowing about their girlfriends. But our daughters’ boyfriends? God forbid. (But we of course expect them to bring home the perfect man for marriage when the time is right.)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
When you want to join a prestigious social club, do you wonder if your race will make it difficult to join? If you do well in a situation, do you expect to be called a credit to your race? Or to be described as different from the majority of your race? If you need legal or medical help, do you worry that your race might work against you? If you take a job with an affirmative action employer, do you worry that your co-workers will think that you are unqualified and were hired only because of your race? Do you worry that your children will not have books and school materials that are about people of their own race?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ifemelu thought about the expression "sweet girl." Sweet girl meant that, for a long time, Don had molded Ranyinudo into a malleable shape, or that she had allowed him to think he had.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
But by far the worst thing we do to males — by making them feel they have to be hard — is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Now imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. But I am also hopeful, because I believe deeply in the ability of human beings to remake themselves for the better.""We say to girls 'You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful but not too successful, otherwise you will threaten the man. If you are the breadwinner in your relationship with a man, pretend you are not, especially in public, otherwise you will emasculate him.'" "Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life's choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Marriage can be a good thing, a source of joy, love and mutual support. But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage, yet we don't teach boys to do the same?""We are all social beings. We internalize ideas from our socialization.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie