Show her that she does not need to be liked by everyone. Tell her that if someone does not like her, there will be someone else who will. Teach her that she not merely an object to be liked or dislike...
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.
Lots of liberal white folks are looking for black friends.
In America, racism exists but racists are all gone.
Ifemelu and Jane laughed when they discovered how similar their childhoods in Grenada and Nigeria had been, with Enid Blyton books and Anglophile teachers and fathers who worshipped the BBC World Serv...
I discovered race in America and it fascinated me.
Her feet had turned into snails.
He had first been excited by Facebook, ghosts of old friends suddenly morphing to life with wives and husbands and children, and photos trailed by comments. But he began to be appalled by the air of u...
Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender, or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.
Aokpe will always be special because it was the reason Kambili and Jaja first came to Nsukka.
Academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stayed securely in them.
A good education isn't the same thing as making the whole damn world something to be explained!
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...
Why should we be feminists? Why not egalitarians?- Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general- but to choose to use the vague expression human rights (or...
One of the first things her friend Ginika told her was that fat in America was a bad word, heaving with moral judgment
Layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her. She
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
He tried to preach to the boy’s mother, but she looked at him as if he were a child who did not know any better. There was something troublingly assertive about her, something he had seen in many wome...
An endless sheet of heads and placards held high.
You read American fiction to learn about dysfunctional white folk doing things that are weird to normal white folks.