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.
Please do not go to Kmart and buy twenty pairs of jeans because each costs five dollars. The jeans are not running away. They will be there tomorrow at an even more reduced price. You are now in Ameri...
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...
Yes, we’re really about excess in this country,
There was something wrong with her. She did not know what it was but there was something wrong with her. A hunger, a restlessness. An incomplete knowledge of herself. The sense of something farther aw...
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.
Teach her that if you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women.
What is the point of culture? Culture functions ultimately to ensure the preservation and continuity of a people.
We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way boys are. If we have sons, we don’t mind knowing about their girlfriends. But our daughters’ boyfriends? God forbif. (But we of course expec...
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...
En ocasiones [...] se da por hecho que las mujeres se suponen moralmente «mejores» que los hombres. No lo son. Las mujeres son igual de humanas que los hombres.
Lots of liberal white folks are looking for black friends.
This is a modified version of a talk I delivered in December 2012 at TEDxEuston,
She told him how she very much wanted God to exist but feared He did not...
You can’t write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be, Richard, she said quietly.
Men ras är inte biologi; ras är sociologi. Ras är inte genotyp; ras är fenotyp. Ras är betydelsefullt på grund av rasismen.
He told you that the company he worked for had offered him a few thousand more than the average salary plus stock options because they were desperately trying to look diverse.
Si hacemos algo una y otra vez, acaba siendo normal. Si vemos la misma cosa una y otra vez, acaba siendo normal.
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.
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