Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote
Yes. He’s back at his desk. Blaine paused. I think he expects this sort of thing to happen. That’s the actual tragedy, Ifemelu said, and realized she was using Blaine’s own words; sometimes she heard in her voice the echo of his. The actual tragedy of Emmett Till, he had told her once, was not the murder of a black child for whistling at a white woman but that some black people thought: But why did you whistle?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Yes. He’s back at his desk. Blaine paused. I think he expects this sort of thing to happen. That’s the actual tragedy, Ifemelu said, and realized she was using Blaine’s own words; sometimes she heard in her voice the echo of his. The actual tragedy of Emmett Till, he had told her once, was not the murder of a black child for whistling at a white woman but that some black people thought: But why did you whistle?