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 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...
We should not be asking whether a woman can do it all but how best to support parents in their dual duties at work and at home
We say to girls: You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful but not too successful, otherwise you will threaten the man. If you are the breadwinner in your relationship w...
We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently.
We do a great disservice to boys in how we raise them. We stifle the humanity of boys. We define masculinity in a very narrow way. Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage....
We call people like Kofi American-African, not African-American, which is what we call our brothers and sisters whose ancestors were slaves.
Una mujer puede ser igual de inteligente, innovadora y creativa que un hombre. Hemos evolucionado. En cambio, nuestras ideas sobre el género no han evolucionado mucho.
Try listening, maybe. Hear what is being said. And remember that it's not about you. American Blacks are not telling you that you are to blame. They are just telling you what is. If you don't understa...
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...
To restore the dignity of man. Obiora was reading the plaque, too. He let out a short cackle and asked, But when did man lose his dignity?
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.
This is really corny but I am so full of you, it’s like I’m breathing you, you know? he had said, and she thought that the romance novelists were wrong and it was men, not women, who were the true rom...
This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.
They would not understand why people like him, who were raised well fed and watered but mired in dissatisfaction, conditioned from birth to look towards somewhere else, eternally convinced that real l...
They agreed, without any prodding, without the shadows of obligation or compromise, on Barack Obama. At first, even though she wished America would elect a black man as president, she thought it impos...
There was a feeling I wanted to feel that I did not feel.
There are two answers to the things they will teach you about our land: the real answer and the answer you give in school to pass. You must read books and learn both answers.
There are slightly more women than men in the world—52 percent of the world’s population is female—but most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men.