A man with dry, graying skin and a mop of white hair came in with a plastic tray of herbal potions for sale. No, no, no, Aisha said to him, palm raised as though to ward him off. The man retreated. If...
A man is likely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative and creative. We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much.
جدي لامي وجدي لأبي كلاهما كان رجلا رائعا.كلاهما وُلد في بدايات القرن الـ20 في ارض قبيلة الابيو التابعه للحكم البريطاني،كلاهما قرر ان يعلم ابناءه،كلاهما كان خفيف الظل.وكلاهما كان ذا كبرياء.علمت كل هذا...
Él siempre se esforzaba por ser diferente, incluso cuando no importaba. Era como si actuara en lugar de vivir.
«Porque eres una niña» nunca es una razón para nada. Nunca.
She looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt. She thought nothing of slender legs shown off in miniskirts—it was safe and easy, after all, to display legs of which the world app...
She feared that marriage would flatten it to a prosaic partnership.
She added that academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stayed securely in them.
Said. I’m fine. I have a granola bar, Ifemelu said. She had some baby carrots in a Ziploc, too, although all she had snacked on so far was her melted chocolate. What bar? Aisha asked. Ifemelu showed h...
Racism is about the power of a group and in America it’s white folks who have that power. How? Well, white folks don’t get treated like shit in upper-class African-American communities and white folks...
Pillow on
Now. After Ifemelu hung up, still amused, she decided to change the title of her blog to Raceteenth or Various Observations About American Blacks (Those Formerly Known as Negroes) by a Non-American Bl...
Loping, comfortable gait pulled my eyes and held them. I turned and dashed into the flat. I could see the front yard
It’s wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It’s possible to love something and still condescend to it.
His mind had not changed at the same pace as his life, and he felt a hollow space between himself and the person he was supposed to be. He
He was sure that she, with a little more time and a little more wisdom, would come to accept that the novels he liked were superior, novels written by young and youngish men and packed with things, a...
He was out playing and heard Molly calling him. Richard! Supper! Instead of answering Coming! and running to her, he dodged under a hedge, scraping his knees. Richard! Richard! Molly sounded frantic t...
Hair away from her face, as though one hand could not possibly tame all that hair. How nice to meet you, she said to Ifemelu, smiling, as they shook hands, her hand small,
Felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size.
Echi eteka, «Mañana está demasiado lejos». Un mordisco, dijo, y en diez minutos se ha acabado todo.