There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.
In a healthy relationship, it is the role of whoever can provide to provide.
Greatness depends on where you are coming from.
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...
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...
The truth has become an insult.
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...
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...
The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership.
To take charity for granted, to revel in this charity towards people whom one did not know - perhaps it came from having had yesterday and having today and expecting to have tomorrow. She envied them...
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...
A father is as much a verb as a mother.
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...
I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.
You can't even read American fiction to get a sense of how actual life is lived these days. You read American fiction to learn about dysfunctional white folk doing things that are weird to normal whit...
Try more strategy and less force. Passion never wins any game, never mind what they say. He said something similar now: Excuses don’t win a game. You should try strategy.
Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they seem them as relational rather than as individual equal humans. Men who, when discussing rape, will always say something like 'if...
On the Subject of Non-American Blacks Suffering from Illnesses Whose Names They Refuse to Know.
But why do we say nothing? Ujunwa asked. She raised her voice and looked at the others. Why do we always say nothing?
There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even accepted that the man was ugly.