Half Of A Yellow Sun Quotes

#1. I was attracted to 'Half of a Yellow Sun' because of the story.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#2. While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#3. Red was the blood of the siblings massacred in the North, black was for mourning them, green was for the prosperity Biafra would have, and, finally, the half of a yellow sun stood for the glorious future.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#4. I'm not Rihanna. I'm not cool. When people come up to me in the street, they often want a hug, not a photo, and they want that because they like my work.

Anne Hathaway

#5. I am an only child, and I guess was spoiled by my parents.

Mordecai Brown

#6. About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.

Frank Yerby

#7. Armani makes a fantastic lip gloss called 'Beige 100.'

Cate Blanchett

#8. At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.

Karl Liebknecht

#9. They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.

Jackie Cooper

#10. My heart was beating out of my chest.

Swoosie Kurtz