She had come to understand that American parenting was a juggling of anxieties, and that it came with having too much food: a sated belly gave Americans time to worry that their child might have a rar...
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...
Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they see them as relational rather than as individual equal humans.
I went to Temple?
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...
He realized that what he wanted most of all, with her, was time.
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.
Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.
You know it was love at first sight for both of us, he said.
White writers can be blunt about race and get all activist because their anger isn’t threatening
There were emotions she wanted to hold in the palm of her hand that were simply no longer there.
There was something brittle about her, and he feared she would snap apart at the slightest touch; she had thrown herself so fiercely into this, the erasing of memory, that it would destroy her.
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.
Teach her about difference. Make difference ordinary. Make difference normal. Teach her not to attach value to difference. And the reason for this is not to be fair or to be nice but merely to be huma...
I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those leas...
You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me? Aunty Ifeka said. Your life belongs to you and you alone.
There is so much that is still silent between Jaja and me. Perhaps we will talk more with time, or perhaps we never will be able to say it all, to clothe things in words, things that have long been na...
She had, finally, spun herself fully into being.
Men's grooming is never suspect in the way women's grooming is--a well-dressed man does not worry that, because he is dressed well, certain assumptions might be made about his intelligence, his abilit...
If we don't place the straitjacket of gender roles on young children, we give them space to reach their full potential.