Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote
She was struck by how mostly slim white people got off at the stops in Manhattan and, as the train went further into Brooklyn, the people left were mostly black and fat. She had not thought of them as fat, though. She had thought of them as big, because one of the first things her friend Ginika told her was that fat in America was a bad word, heaving with moral judgement like stupid or bastard, and not a mere description like short or tall. So she had banished fat from her vocabulary.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
She was struck by how mostly slim white people got off at the stops in Manhattan and, as the train went further into Brooklyn, the people left were mostly black and fat. She had not thought of them as fat, though. She had thought of them as big, because one of the first things her friend Ginika told her was that fat in America was a bad word, heaving with moral judgement like stupid or bastard, and not a mere description like short or tall. So she had banished fat from her vocabulary.