Of course, of course, but my point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe,’ Master said. ‘I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am bl...
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...
Ifemelu would also come to learn that, for Kimberly, the poor were blameless. Poverty was a gleaming thing; she could not conceive of poor people being vicious or nasty because their poverty had canon...
I lived in Boston until last year, he said, in a falsely low-key way, because Boston was code for Harvard (otherwise he would say MIT or Tufts or anywhere else), just as another woman said, I was in N...
I am trying to unlearn many lessons of gender I internalized while growing up. But I sometimes still feel vulnerable in the face of gender expectations. The
Hon misstänkte alltid att han hade rätt.
Everybody will have an opinion about what you should do, but what matters is what you want for yourself.
Enséñale a que no haga universales sus principios y experiencias. Enséñale que sus principios son solo para ella, no para los demás.
Boys and girls are undeniably different biologically, but socialization exaggerates the differences.
And that is part of the problem. That many men do not actively think about gender or notice gender.
He thought about the next time he would laugh with her and then the next. He found himself often thinking about the future, even before the present was over.
الأطفال العُراة يضحكون, كأنما الرجل لن يلتقط الصورة ثم بعد ذلك يتركهم وحدهم لمصيرهم
She always chose peace over truth,
Puzzled him that she did not mourn all the things she could have been. Was it a quality inherent in women, or did they just learn to shield their personal regrets, to suspend their lives, subsume them...
Dijo que era la exagerada gratitud derivada de la inseguridad del inmigrante.
Could not conceive of poor people being vicious or nasty because their poverty had canonized them, and the greatest saints were the foreign poor.
Brought with it amorphous longings, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living,
What if the parents, from the beginning, taught both children to cook Indomie? Cooking, by the way, is a useful and practical life skill for a boy to have—I’ve neverthought it made much sense to leave...
We have fried chicken in common? Do you realize how loaded fried chicken is as a metaphor here?
We also need to question the idea of marriage as a prize to women, because that is the basis of these absurd debates. If we stopped conditioning women to see marriage as a prize, then we would have fe...