We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller.Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously.”
Haitian-American writer · born 1969
Haitian-American novelist and memoirist, author of Breath, Eyes, Memory and the essay collection Create Dangerously. Her work bears witness to Haiti's history and to the lives of its diaspora.
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