You don't even have to love your job; you can merely love what your job does for you--the confidence and self-fulfillment that come with doing and earning.
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.
We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way boys are.
University was bigger and baggier, there was room to hide, so much room; she did not feel as though she did not belong because there were so many options for belonging.
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...
To love is not only to give but also to take
This is a modified version of a talk I delivered in December 2012 at TEDxEuston,
They mimicked what Americans told them: You speak such good English. How bad is AIDS in your country? It’s so sad that people live on less than a dollar a day in Africa. And they themselves mocked Afr...
These people, they make you become aggressive just to hold your dignity.
There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even accepted that the man is ugly,' Kainene said. There was a small smile o...
Some people can take up too much space by simply being, that by existing, some people can stifle others.
She would not place her memory on things that strangers could barge in and take away.
She wished, fleetingly, that her mother was not her mother, and for this she felt not guilt and sadness but a single emotion, a blend of guilt and sadness.
She began to like him because he liked her.
STRONG because that is what black women are supposed to be in America.
Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.
Periods are normal and natural, and the human species would not be here if periods did not exist.
Men ras är inte biologi; ras är sociologi. Ras är inte genotyp; ras är fenotyp. Ras är betydelsefullt på grund av rasismen.
Mama had greeted him the traditional way that women were supposed to, bending low and offering him her back so that he would pat it with his fan made of the soft, straw-colored tail of an animal. Back...
Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?