This man who ate her apple cores and turned even that into something of a moral act.
Nigeria became where she was supposed to be, the only place she could sink her roots in without the constant urge to tug them out and shake off the soil.
Maybe it’s time to just scrap the word racist. Find something new. Like Racial Disorder Syndrome. And we could have different categories for sufferers of this syndrome: mild, medium, and acute. CHAPTE...
New Haven smelled of neglect. Baltimore smelled of brine, and Brooklyn of sun-warmed garbage.
But she had not had a bold epiphany and there was no cause; it was simply that layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her. She did not tell him this,...
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 forbid. (But we of course expec...
Nigerian women came to America and became wild, Igbo Massachusetts Accountant wrote in one post; it was an unpleasant truth but one that had to be said. What else accounted for the high divorce rates...
To love is not only to give but also to take
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing who we are.
Olanna gently placed a pillow beneath her head and sat thinking about how a single act could reverberate over time and space and leave stains that could never be washed off.
We teach boys to be afraid of fear, of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves,
The trick was to understand America, to know that America was give-and-take. You gave up a lot but you gained a lot, too.
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are.
The little boy had a delightful curious face. Do you live in London? he asked Obinze. Yes, Obinze said, but that yes did not tell his story, that he lived in London indeed but invisibly, his existence...
Oh, why did he slap her when she’s a widow, and that annoyed her even more. She said she should not have been slapped because she is a full human being, not because she doesn’t have a husband to speak...
Now that she was asked to speak at roundtables and panels, on public radio and community radio, always identified simply as The Blogger, she felt subsumed by her blog and had become her blog. There we...
We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, ‘You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful but not too successful, otherwise you will t...
Of course it was angry. Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry.
Obinze said it was the exaggerated gratitude that came with immigrant insecurity.
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.
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