When you want to join a prestigious social club, do you wonder if your race will make it difficult to join? If you do well in a situation, do you expect to be called a credit to your race? Or to be de...
We police girls. We praise girls for virginity but we don't praise boys for virginity (and it makes me wonder how exactly this is supposed to work out, since the loss of virginity is a process that us...
The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership.
Greatness depends on where you are coming from.
The truth has become an insult.
Alexa and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the...
It had to be that Americans were taught, from elementary school, to always say something in class, no matter what. [...] They never said I don't know. They said, instead, I'm not sure, which did not g...
I want to hold his hand, but I know he will shake it free. His eyes are too full of guilt to really see me, to see his reflection in my eyes, the reflection of my hero, the brother who tried always to...
I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.
A father is as much a verb as a mother.
To call him humble was to make rudeness normal. Besides, humility had always seemed to him a specious thing, invented for the comfort of others; you were praised for humility by people because you did...
On the Subject of Non-American Blacks Suffering from Illnesses Whose Names They Refuse to Know.
There are people who say, 'Well, your name is also about patriarchy because it is your father's name.' Indeed. But the point is simply this: whether it came from my father or from the moon, it is the...
Gender roles are so deeply conditioned in us that we will often follow them even when they chafe against our true desires, our needs, our happiness.
But why do we say nothing? Ujunwa asked. She raised her voice and looked at the others. Why do we always say nothing?
There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable, Kainene said. There was a pause. Inside Olanna, something calcified leaped to life.
Above all, let your focus be on remaining a full person. Take time for yourself. Nurture your own needs. Please do not think of it as 'doing it all'. Our culture celebrates the idea of women who are a...
Tell her that her body belongs to her and her alone, that she should never feel the need to say yes to something she does not want, or something she feels pressured to do. Teach her that saying no whe...
He realized that what he wanted most of all, with her, was time.
Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.
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