The rude stranger in the supermarket--who knew what problems he was wrestling with, haggard and thin-lipped as he was--had intended to offend her but had instead prodded her awake.
They have the kinds of things we can eat.' An unease crept up on Ifemelu. She was comfortable here, and she wished she were not. She wished, too, that she were not so interested in this new restaurant...
This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.
Obinze said it was the exaggerated gratitude that came with immigrant insecurity.
Of course it was angry. Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry.
Ogbenyealu is a common name for girls and you know what it means? ‘Not to Be Married to a Poor Man.’ To stamp that on a child at birth is capitalism at its best. Richard
Oh, my God,’ she said, between sobs. ‘Oh, my God.’Olanna reached out often to squeeze her arm. The rawness of Edna’s grief made her helpless, brought the urge to stretch her hand into the past and rev...
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...
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...
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.
We teach boys to be afraid of fear, of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves,
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.
To love is not only to give but also to take
She had taught her son the ability to be, even in the middle of a crowd, somehow comfortably inside himself.
Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.
Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they see them as relational rather than as individual equal humans. Men who, when discussing rape, will always say something like if it...
She had seen that look before, on the faces of white women, strangers on the street, who would see her hand clasped in Curt's and instantly cloud their faces with that look. The look of people confron...
They would not understand why people like him, who were raised well fed and watered but mired in dissatisfaction, conditioned from birth to look towards somewhere else, eternally convinced that real l...
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t h...
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 away, beyond her reach.
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