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 waiters are products of a society that has taught them that men are more important than women. And I know the waiters don’t intend any harm, but it is one thing to know intellectually, and quite a...
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...
Sometimes I hate them, Kainene said. The vandals. No, them. Kainene pointed back at the room. I hate them for dying.
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.
She was taking two sides at once, to please everyone; she always chose peace over truth, was always eager to conform.
She looked at him in wonder. This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.
She liked that he wore their relationship so boldly, like a brightly colored shirt. Sometimes she worried that she was too happy. She would sink into moodiness, and snap at Obinze, or be distant. And...
She had read many of them, because he recommended them, but they were like cotton candy that so easily evaporated from her tongue’s memory.
Red was the blood of the siblings massacred in the North, black was for mourning them, green was for the prosperity Biafra would have, and, finally, the half of a yellow sun stood for the glorious fut...
Posiveli lasje na strani so bili počesani naprej, komična ureditev, ki naj bi prikrila plešo. Moral je biti akademik, vendar ne v humanistiki, sicer bi bil bolj samozavesten. Znanost, kot je kemija, m...
Please do not ever put this pressure on your daughter. We teach girls to be likeable, to be nice, to be false. And we do not teach boys the same. This is dangerous. Many sexual predators have capitali...
People were saying, Oh, why did he slap her when she’s a widow, and that annoyed her even more. She said she should not have been slapped because she is a full human being, not because she doesn’t hav...
One of the things I've learned is that everybody in this country has the mentality of scarcity. We imagine that even the things that are not scarce are scarce. And it breeds a kind of desperation in e...
O problema da questão de gêneros é que ela prescreve como devemos ser em vez de reconhecer como somos. Seríamos bem mais felizes, mais livres para sermos quem realmente somos, se não tivéssemos o peso...
O jokal Eugene tem de parar de fazer o trabalho de Deus. Deus é grande o suficiente para fazer seu próprio trabalho. Se Deus for julgar nosso pai por escolher o caminho de nossos ancestrais, então Ele...
Not long ago, I wrote an article about being young and female in Lagos. And an acquaintance told me that it was an angry article, and I should not have made it so angry. But I was unapologetic. Of cou...
La primera vez que impartí una clase de posgrado de escritura estaba preocupada. No por el temario, porque lo tenía bien preparado y estaba enseñando lo que me gustaba. Lo que me preocupaba era qué ro...
La persona más cualificada para ser líder ya no es la persona con más fuerza física. Es la más inteligente, la que tiene más conocimientos, la más creativa o la más innovadora. Y para estos atributos...
It’s true. And they don’t just spend a lot, they expect to spend a lot. I met this guy the other day, and he was telling me how he started his satellite-dish business about twenty years ago. This was...