Tienen una energía desbordante, de veras, pero me temo que muy poca higiene». Le explicó que los hausas del norte eran gente muy digna, los igbos eran ariscos y amantes del dinero, y los yorubas eran...
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...
Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the figurines on the etagere.(Opening page, 3)
They went to a fraternity house on Chestnut Street, where everyone stood around drinking vodka-rich punch from plastic cups, until Ifemelu accepted that there would be no dancing; to party here was to...
There were people thrice her size on the Trenton platform and she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt. She thought nothing of slender legs shown off in miniskirts--it was s...
There are simply no doctors and nurses left on that continent. It’s an absolute tragedy! African doctors should stay in Africa. Why shouldn’t they want to practice where there is regular electricity a...
There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time.
The male gaze, as a shaper of my life’s choices, is largely incidental. Gender
The simplest solution to the problem of race in America? Romantic love. Not friendship. Not the kind of safe, shallow love where the objective is that both people remain comfortable. But real deep rom...
The late Kenyan Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said, the higher you go, the fewer women there are.
The knowledge of cooking does not come pre-installed in a vagina.
The knowledge of cooking does not come pre-installed in a vagina. Cooking is learned. Cooking – domestic work in general – is a life skill that both men and women should ideally have. It is also a ski...
Teach her that if you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women. For X please insert words like anger, ambition, loudness...
Teach her about privilege and inequality and the importance of giving dignity to everyone who does not mean her harm—teach her that the household help is human just like her, teach her always to greet...
Take cooking, for example. Today, women in general are more likely to do housework than men—cooking and cleaning. But why is that? Is it because women are born with a cooking gene or because over year...
Some people ask: Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that? Because that would be dishonest.
Si criticas X en las mujeres pero no lo criticas en los hombres, tal vez no tengas un problema con X, sino con las mujeres.
She was the sort of person whose love would suffocate.
She was taking two sides at once, to please everyone; she always chose peace over truth, was always eager to conform.
Real potatoes are backward for him. Remember this is our newly middle-class world. We haven’t completed the first cycle of prosperity, before going back to the beginning again, to drink milk from the...