Obinze imagined him, dutiful and determined, visiting the places he was supposed to visit, thinking, as he did so, not of the things he was seeing but of the photos he would take of them and of the pe...
Não tinha mais certeza, na verdade nunca tivera certeza, se gostava de sua vida porque realmente gostava ou se porque deveria gostar.
Michael’s a good cat but he tries so hard to keep it real that he can seem full of negativity,
Ikenna, I have come to realize, is a man who carries with him the weight of what could have been.
I prefer Ms. because it is similar to Mr. A man is Mr. whether married or not, a woman is Ms. whether married or not. So please teach Chizalum that in a truly just society, women should not be expecte...
I go to Mexico and they’re staring at me. It’s not hostile at all, but it just makes you know you stick out, kind of like they like you but you’re still King Kong.
Como soy mujer, se espera de mí que aspire al matrimonio. Se espera de mí que tome decisiones en la vida sin olvidar nunca que el matrimonio es lo más importante. El matrimonio puede ser bueno, una fu...
Basta con que uno hable español pero no sea de España, y voilà, pertenece a una raza llamada hispana.
America’s ladder of races, Jewish is white but also some rungs below white. A bit confusing,
Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has s...
Layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her.
He lived in London indeed but invisibly, his existence like an erased pencil sketch
When your uncle first married me, I worried because I thought those women outside would come and displace me from my home. I now know that nothing he does will make my life change. My life will only c...
We police girls. We praise girls for virginity but we don't praise boys for virginity.
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...
We did not scale the rod because we believed we could, we scaled it because we were terrified that we couldn't.
Try not to use words like misogyny and patriarchy too often with Chizalum. We feminists can sometimes be too jargony, and jargon can sometimes feel too abstract. Don’t just label something misogynisti...
They reminded Ifemelu of television commercials, of people whose lives were lived always in flattering light, whose messes were still aesthetically pleasing.
They also found a burial chamber, didn’t they?’ Richard asked. ‘Yes.’ ‘Do you think it was used by the king?’ Pa Anozie gave Richard a long, pained look and mumbled something for a while, looking grie...
There was something immodest about her modesty: it announced itself.