If she likes makeup, let her wear it. If she likes fashion, let her dress up. But if she doesn’t like either, let her be. Don’t think that raising her feminist means forcing her to reject femininity....
She would not place her memory on things that strangers could barge in and take away.
Encourage her to speak her mind, to say what she really thinks, to speak truthfully. And then praise her when she does. Praise her especially when she takes a stand that is difficult or unpopular beca...
Há alguns meses, ele escreveu dizendo que não queria que eu ficasse procurando os porquês, pois há certas coisas que acontecem e para as quais não podemos formular um porquê, para as quais os porquês...
She had always liked this image of herself as too much trouble, as different, and she sometimes thought of it as a carapace that kept her safe.
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...
So if you're going to write about race, you have to make sure it's so lyrical and subtle that the reader who doesn't read between the lines won't even know it's about race.
He spoke so effortlessly, as if his mouth were a musical instrument that just let sound out when touched, when opened.
Há certas coisas que acontecem e para as quais não podemos formular um porquê, para as quais os porquês simplesmente não existem e para as quais, talvez, eles não sejam necessários
Teach her to question language. Language is the repository of our prejudices, our beliefs, our assumptions.
Her feet had turned into snails.
Her first love, her first lover, the only person with whom she had never felt the need to explain herself.
If we do something over and over, it becomes normal.
A Nigerian acquaintance once asked me if I was worried that men would be intimidated by me. I was not worried at all—it had not even occurred to me to be worried, because a man who will be intimidated...
Si hacemos algo una y otra vez, acaba siendo normal. Si vemos la misma cosa una y otra vez, acaba siendo normal.
You read American fiction to learn about dysfunctional white folk doing things that are weird to normal white folks.
I knew what I wanted to run to. But it didn’t exist, so I didn’t leave.
It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man.
To make sure she doesn't inherit shame from you, you have to free yourself of your own inherited shame. And I know how terribly difficult that is. In every culture in the world, female sexuality is ab...
She told him how she very much wanted God to exist but feared He did not...
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