He spoke so effortlessly, as if his mouth were a musical instrument that just let sound out when touched, when opened.
Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. But I am also hopeful, because I believe deeply in th...
Everybody will have an opinion about what you should do, but what matters is what you want for yourself.
And, in the pride in her eyes, he saw a shinier, better version of himself.
And that is part of the problem. That many men do not actively think about gender or notice gender.
And I said, Ah correct, there is hope. She reads.
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.
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
¡Una buena educación no es lo mismo que convertir el mundo entero en algo que explicar! Hasta
The premise of chivalry is female weakness.
The idea of looking shabby because you could afford not to be shabby; it mocked true shabbiness.
That absurd idea of men will be men, which means having a much lower standard for men. I
One of the first things her friend Ginika told her was that fat in America was a bad word, heaving with moral judgment
Brought with it amorphous longings, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living,
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...
You read American fiction to learn about dysfunctional white folk doing things that are weird to normal white folks.
You knew you had become comfortable when you told him that you watched Jeopardy on the restaurant TV and that you rooted for the following, in this order: women of color, black men, and white women, b...
Yes, we’re really about excess in this country,
With him, she felt breakable, precious.