He was always thinking of what else to do and she told him that it was rare for her, because she had grown up not doing, but being.
He was now a husband and father, and they had not been in touch in years, yet she could not pretend that he was not a part of her homesickness, or that she did not often think of him, sifting through...
Her job is not to make herself likeable, her job is to be her full self, a self that is honest and aware of the equal humanity of other people.
I am angry. We all should be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.
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 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 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...
If we see the same thing over and over, it becomes normal.
Ifemelu imaginaba a los autores, nigerianos en casas lúgubres de Estados Unidos, sus vidas amortecidas por el trabajo, guardando el dinero ahorrado con cuidado a lo largo del año para poder visitar su...
In America, you don’t get to decide what race you are. It is decided for you.
It is one of the things she has come to love about America, the abundance of unreasonable hope.
It puzzled him that she did not mourn all the things she could have been. Was it a quality inherent in women, or did they just learn to shield their personal regrets, to suspend their lives, subsume t...
It was a tiny moment, brief and fleeting, but Olanna noticed how scrupulously they avoided any contact, any touch of skin, as if they were united by a common knowledge so monumental that they were det...
It was not as if he did not know what living in Lagos could do to a woman married to a young and wealthy man, how easy it was to slip into paranoid about 'Lagos girls,' those sophisticated monsters of...
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...
Laura picked up the menu again. In graduate school I knew a woman from Africa who was just like this doctor, I think she was from Uganda. She was wonderful, and she didn’t get along with the African-A...
Let her know that there are many individuals and many cultures that do not find the narrow mainstream definition of beauty attractive.
Life was a struggle with ourselves more than with a spear-wielding Satan; that belief was a choice for our conscience always to be sharpened.
Master was a little crazy; he had spent too many years reading books overseas, talked to himself in his office, did not always return greetings, and had too much hair.
My own definition is a feminist is a man or a woman who says, yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better. All of us, women and men, must do better.
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