With Curt, she became, in her mind, a woman free of knots and cares...She was lighter and leaner; she was Curt's Girlfriend, a role she slipped into as into a favorite, flattering dress.
They will always be doomed to supermarkets like this.
They tell us race is an invention, that there is no genetic variation between two black people than there is between a black person and a white person. Then they tell us black people have a worse kind...
They said soon to each other often, and soon gave their plan the weight of something real.
They looked at the world with an impractical, luminous earnestness that moved her, but never convinced her.
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.
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
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?
That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out
Sometimes she worried that she was too happy. . . And her joy would become a restless thing, flapping its wings inside her, as though looking for an opening to fly away.
Sometimes life begins when the marriage ends
So teach Chizalum that biology is an interesting and fascinating subject, but she should never accept it as justification for any social norm. Because social norms are created by human beings, and the...
Si solo vemos a hombres presidiendo empresas, empezará a parecernos «natural» que solo haya hombres presidentes de empresas.
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...
She was a literal person who did not read, she was content rather than curious about the world.
She is one of those black people who want to be the only black person in the room, so any other black person is an immediate threat to her.
She had a formidable air; a person who went about setting everyone and everything right in the world.
She felt a step removed from the things he believed, and the things he knew, and she was eager to play catch-up, fascinated by his sense of rightness.
She felt a sense that things were in order, the way they were meant to be, and that even if they tumbled down once in a while, in the end they would come back together again.
One day I said to them, Where is the God you worship? They said he was like Chukwu, that he was in the sky. I asked then, Who is the person that was killed, the person that hangs on the wood outside t...