But she was uncomfortable with what the professors called 'participation,' and did not see why it should be part of the final grade; it merely made students talk and talk, class time wasted on obvious...
But if we start raising children differently, then in fifty years, in a hundred years, boys will no longer have the pressure of proving their masculinity by material means.
Big Men and Big Women, Obinze would later learn, did not talk to people, they instead talked at people...
Being defiant can be a good thing sometimes, Aunty Ifeoma said. Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing when it is used right.
Bartholomew wore khaki trousers pulled up high on his belly, and spoke with an American accent filled with holes, mangling words until they were impossible to understand. Ifemelu sensed, from his deme...
And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males.
And after you register your own company, you must find a white man. Find one of your white friends in England. Tell everybody he is your General Manager. You will see how doors will open for you becau...
And I said, Ah correct, there is hope. She reads.
A quickening inside her, a dawning. She realized, quite suddenly, that she wanted to breathe the same air as Obinze.
He did not want me to seek the whys, because there are some things that happen for which we can formulate no whys, for which whys simply do not exist and, perhaps, are not necessary.
And begin a life in which she alone determined the margins.
Os que estudaram vão embora, aqueles que têm potencial para consertar o que está errado. Eles deixam os fracos para trás. Os tiranos continuam reinando porque os fracos não conseguem resistir. Você nã...
To clarify, when white people say dark they mean Greek or Italian but when black people say dark they mean Grace Jones.)
«No juzgar» puede degenerar fácilmente en «no tener una opinión sobre nada» o «callar las opiniones propias».
«En lugar de enseñarle a tu hija a agradar, enséñale a ser sincera. Y amable. Y valiente. Anímala a decir lo que piensa, a decir lo que opina en realidad, a decir la verdad. [...] Dile que, si algo la...
Whenever she felt besieged by doubts, she would think of herself as standing valiantly alone, as almost heroic, so as to squash her uncertainty.
Was safe and easy, after all, to display legs of which the world approved—but the fat woman’s act was about the quiet conviction that one shared only with oneself, a sense of rightness that others fai...
They would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness.
The premise of chivalry is female weakness.
That people walk different paths in the world, and that as long as those paths do no harm to others, they are valid paths that she must respect.