A cultura não faz as pessoas. As pessoas fazem a cultura. Se uma humanidade inteira de mulheres não faz parte da nossa cultura, então temos que mudar nossa cultura.
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 words...
My point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe...I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed t...
It is one thing to know something intellectually and quite another to feel it emotionally.
There is nothing more beautiful than what God gave me.
That's a pretty strong opinion.-I don't know how to have any other kind.
O que desejo a Chizalum é o seguinte: que ela seja cheia de opiniões, e que suas opiniões provenham de uma base bem informada, humana e de uma mente aberta. Que ela tenha saúde e felicidade. Que tenha...
¿Por qué la gente preguntaba «De qué trata» como si una novela tuviera que tratar de una sola cosa?
What I hope for Chizalum is this: that she will be full of opinions, and that her opinions will come from an informed, humane and broad-minded place.
Was shaking his head sadly as he spoke—was that I should never call myself a feminist since feminists are women who are unhappy because they cannot find husbands. So I decided to call myself a Happy F...
Physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes.
It was absurd how women’s magazines forced images of small-boned, small-breasted white women on the rest of the multi-boned, multi-ethnic world of women to emulate.
Breadfruit seeds she had offered him was untouched—he no longer ate anything at all of hers—and she looked at him, this man wearing trousers, and a rosary around his neck, and wondered whether she had...
Before he fell asleep, Molière’s words came to him, strangely comforting: Unbroken happiness is a bore; it should have ups and downs.
Young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled, Americans have sent a message to the world that we have...
You know it was love at first sight for both of us, he said.For both of us? Is it by force? Why are you speaking for me?I'm just stating a fact. Stop struggling....Yes, it's a fact, she said.What?I lo...
Yes, good. There’s something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You’ve never even accepted that the man is ugly, Kainene said. There was a sma...
Why was nigger bleeped out? I mean, nigger is a word that exists. People use it. It is part of America. It has caused a lot of pain to people and I think it is insulting to bleep it out. ...it's like...
When Sister Ibinabo was talking to Christie, with that poisonous spite she claimed was religious guidance, Ifemelu had looked at her and suddenly seen something of her own mother. Her mother was a kin...
What struck me—with her and with many other female American friends I have—is how invested they are in being liked. How they have been raised to believe that their being likable is very important and...