In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in the movies about the civil rights era. Here's the thing: the manifestat...
If we see the same thing over and over, it becomes normal.
If we keep seeing only men as heads of corporations, it starts to seem natural that only men should be heads of corporations.
If we do something over and over again, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over again, it becomes normal. If only boys are made class monitor, then at some point we will all think, e...
I will advise you to wait until you are at least in the university, wait until you own yourself a little more. Do you understand?Yes, Ifemelu said. She did not know what own yourself a little more mea...
I was waiting for her to ask ‘Was it the one with two eyes or the one with two legs?’ Why didn’t she just ask ‘Was it the black girl or the white girl?’ Ginika laughed. Because this is America. You’r...
I think love is the most important thing in life. Whatever kind, however you define it, but I think of it generally as being greatly valued by another human being and greatly valuing another human bei...
I like politics and history and am happiest when having a good argument about ideas.
I had examined him that day, too, looking away when his eyes met mine, for signs of difference, of godlessness. I didn't see any, but I was sure they were there somewhere. They had to be.
I don’t think love as a reason. I think love comes first and then the reasons follow.
I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. In addition to anger, I am also hopeful, because I believe deeply in the ability of human beings to rema...
I am angry. We all should be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.
How can a person claim to love you and yet want you to do things that suit only them? Udenna was like that.
His mind had not changed at the same pace as his life, and he felt a hollow space between himself and the person he was supposed to be.
His letters dwell on me. I carry them around because they are long and detailed, because they remind me of my worthiness, because they tug at my feelings. Some months ago, he wrote that he did not wan...
Here’s a nifty solution: Each couple that marries should take on an entirely new surname, chosen however they want as long as both agree to it, so that a day after the wedding, both husband and wife c...
Her friend is having a party, this Russian girl, they became friends because they have the same violin tutor. The first time I met the girl’s mother, I think she was wearing something illegal, like th...
Her blog was doing well, with thousands of unique visitors each month, and she was earning good speaking fees, and she had a fellowship at Princeton and a relationship with Blaine - You are the absolu...
He wanted to know about day-to-day life in America, what people ate and what consumed them, what shamed them and what attracted them, but he read novel after novel and was disappointed: nothing was gr...
He took her hand in his, both clasped on the table, and between them silence grew, an ancient silence that they both knew. She was inside this silence and she was safe.