The knowledge of cooking does not come pre-installed in a vagina. ... If we stopped conditioning women to see marriage as a prize, then we would have fewer debates about a wife needing to cook in orde...
Todo el mundo tendrá una opinión de lo que deberías hacer, pero lo importante es lo que tú quieras y no lo que los demás quieran que quieras.
Today we live in a vastly different world. The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovati...
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...
People often told him how humble he was, but they did not mean real humility, it was merely that he did not flaunt his membership in the wealthy club, did not exercise the rights it brought—to be rude...
Americans will smile at you and be extremely friendly but if your name is not Cory or Chad, they make no effort at saying it properly. The Brits will be surly and will be suspicious if you’re too frie...
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.
The wind blowing across the British Isles was odorous with fear of asylum seekers, infecting everybody with the panic of impending doom, and so articles were written and read, simply and stridently, a...
One day, I will look up and all the people I know will be dead or abroad. She had spoken wearily.
The white missionaries brought us their god, Amaka was saying. Which was the same color as them, worshiped in their language and packaged in the boxes they made. Now that we take their god back to the...
We teach boys to be afraid of fear, of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves,
To be a child of the Third World is to be aware of the many different constituencies you have and how honesty and truth must always depend on context.
Our world is full of men and women who do not like powerful women. We have been so conditioned to think of power as male that a powerful woman is an aberration. And so she is policed. We ask of powerf...
We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. But the reverse is not the case. We don’t teach boys to care about being likable.
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.
We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. But the reverse is not the case. We don’t teach boys to care about being likable. We spend too much time telling girls tha...
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing who we are.
Philadelphia was the smell of the summer sun, of burnt asphalt, of sizzling meat from food carts tucked into street corners, foreign brown men and women hunched inside. Ifemelu would come to like the...
Siempre he tenido la impresión de que es imposible conocer debidamente un lugar o a una persona sin conocer todas las historias de ese lugar o esa persona. La consecuencia del relato único es la sigui...
Please don't speak Igbo to him,' Aunty Uju said. 'Two languages will confuse him.''What are you talking about, Aunty? We spoke two languages growing up.''This is America. It's different.
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