We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know. I have three...
How was it possible to miss something you no longer wanted?
Quante altre persone erano diventate nere in America?
She was too afraid to hope, now that it seemed possible.
But of course it makes sense because we are Third Worlders and Third Worlders are forward-looking, we like things to be new, because our best is still ahead, while in the West their best is already pa...
Si le gusta el maquillaje, deja que se maquille. Si le gusta la moda, deja que se arregle. Pero si no le gusta ni una cosa ni la otra, déjala tranquila. No creas que criar a una feminista consiste en...
He lived in London indeed but invisibly, his existence like an erased pencil sketch
There was something immodest about her modesty: it announced itself.
The writer had accused me of being ‘angry’, as though ‘being angry’ were something to be ashamed of. Of course I am angry. I am angry about racism. I am angry about sexism.
Si hacemos algo una y otra vez, acaba siendo normal. Si vemos la misma cosa una y otra vez, acaba siendo normal. Si solo los chicos llegan a monitores de clase, al final llegará el momento en que pens...
If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa.
The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.
She was a person who denied that things were as they were. A person who had to spread the cloak of religion over her own petty desires.
They reminded Ifemelu of television commercials, of people whose lives were lived always in flattering light, whose messes were still aesthetically pleasing.
It was the exaggerated gratitude that came with immigrant insecurity.
America’s ladder of races, Jewish is white but also some rungs below white. A bit confusing,
The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is. And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males. We
We police girls. We praise girls for virginity but we don't praise boys for virginity.
Your mother never wanted to remarry? Even if she wanted to, I don’t think she would, because of me. I want her to be happy, but I don’t want her to remarry. I would feel the same way. Did she really f...
Later, she said, I have to take my braids out for my interviews and relax my hair. Kemi told me that I shouldn’t wear braids to the interview. If you have braids, they will think you are unprofessiona...
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