Lots of liberal white folks are looking for black friends.
These people, they make you become aggressive just to hold your dignity.
You read American fiction to learn about dysfunctional white folk doing things that are weird to normal white folks.
She told him how she very much wanted God to exist but feared He did not...
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.
Ifemelu would also come to learn that, for Kimberly, the poor were blameless. Poverty was a gleaming thing; she could not conceive of poor people being vicious or nasty because their poverty had canon...
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.
There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman’s well-being. Feminism Lite uses the language of allowing.
His own will always be seen as different
She is one of those black people who want to be the only black person in the room, so any other black person is an immediate threat to her.
There was a stripped-down quality to her life, a kindling starkness, without parents and friends and home, the familiar landmarks that made her who she was.
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.
How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.
Si hacemos algo una y otra vez, acaba siendo normal. Si vemos la misma cosa una y otra vez, acaba siendo normal.
I meant to say I am sorry Papa broke your figurines, but the words that came out were, ‘I’m sorry your figurines broke, Mama.
At some point I was a Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men and Who Likes to Wear Lip Gloss and High Heels for Herself and Not For Men.
One day, I will look up and all the people I know will be dead or abroad.
What if, in raising children, we focus on ability instead of gender? What if we focus on interest instead of gender?
Their silence was full of stones. Ifemelu felt like apologizing, although she was not quite sure what she would be apologizing for.
Nu vet jag att inget han gör kommer att förändra mitt liv. Mitt liv kommer bara att förändras om jag vill att det ska förändras.
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