I was stained by failure.
I sat at my bedroom window after I changed; the cashew tree was so close I could reach out and pluck a leaf if it were not for the silver-colour crisscross of mosquito netting. The bell-shaped yellow...
I realized that if I ever have children, I don't want them to have American childhoods. I don't want them to say 'Hi' to adults I want them to say 'Good morning' and 'Good afternoon'. I don't want the...
I know this remarkable Nigerian woman, Angela, a single mother who was raising her child in the United States; her child did not take to reading so she decided to pay her five cents per page. An expen...
I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femininity. And I want to be respected in all my femaleness.
I don't want to be a sweetheart. I want to be the fucking love of your life, Curt said with a force that startled her.
I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.
How was it possible to miss something you no longer wanted? Blaine needed what she was unable to give and she needed what he was unable to give, and she grieved this, the loss of what could have been.
He was no longer sure, he had in fact never been sure, whether he liked his life because he really did or whether he liked it because he was supposed to.
He was left-leaning and well-meaning, crippled by his acknowledgment of his own many privileges. He never allowed himself to have an opinion. Yes, I see what you mean, he said often.
He was left-leaning and well-meaning, crippled by his acknowledgement of his own many privileges. He never allowed himself to have an opinion. 'Yes, I see what you mean,' he said often.
He thinks we should complicate it, so it's not race alone...'Nuance' means keep people comfortable so everyone is free to think of themselves as individuals and everyone got where they are because of...
He reminded her of Obinze’s expression for people he liked. Obi ocha. A clean heart.
He looked people in the eye not because he was interested in them but because he knew it made them feel that he was interested in them.
He had to be an academic, but not in the humanities or he would be more self-conscious.
He believed in good omens and positive thoughts and happy endings to films, a trouble-free belief, because he had not considered them deeply before choosing to believe; he just simply believed.
Grief was the celebration of love, those who could feel real grief were lucky to have loved.
Gender matters everywhere in the world. And I would like today to ask that we should begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier men and happier women who a...
Gender matters everywhere in the world. And I would like today to ask that we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier men and happier women who are true...
Everybody will have an opinion about what you should do, but what matters is what you want for yourself, and not what others want you to want.