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...
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 puzzled her, the ability of romantic love to mutate, how quickly a loved one could become a stranger. Where did the love go? Perhaps real love was familial, somehow linked to blood, since love for...
It brought to him a disorienting strangeness, because 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.
In America, you don’t get to decide what race you are. It is decided for you.
If we keep seeing only men as heads of corporations, it starts to seem natural that only men should be heads of corporations.
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 looked the word up in the dictionary, it said: Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. My great-grandmother, from stories I’ve heard, was a femi...
I am angry. We all should be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.
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.
He had at first been excited by Facebook, ghosts of old friends suddenly morphing to life with wives and husbands and children, and photos trailed by comments. But he began to be appalled by the air o...
He expected her to feel what she did not know how to feel. There were things that existed for him that she could not penetrate. With his close friends, she often felt vaguely lost. They were youngish...
Eu sorrira, correra, ria. Meu peito estava repleto de alguma coisa parecida com espuma de banho. Leve. A leveza era tão doce que eu podia sentir seu gosto na língua, tinha a doçura de um caju maduro,...
Então, de uma forma literal, os homens governam o mundo. Isso fazia sentido há mil anos. Os seres humanos viviam num mundo onde a força física era o atributo mais importante para a sobrevivência; quan...
Enséñale sobre privilegios y desigualdades y la importancia de respetar la dignidad de todo aquel que no le quiera mal: enséñale que el servicio es igual de humano que ella, enséñale a saludar siempre...
Enséñale a que nunca, jamás, diga tonterías del calibre «mi dinero es mío y el suyo de los dos». Es mezquino. Y peligroso: semejante actitud significa que potencialmente tendrás que aceptar otras idea...
E se os pais, desde o início, tivessem ensinado ambos os filhos a cozinhar macarrão instantâneo? Aliás, aprender a cozinhar é bom para a vida prática e útil de um menino — nunca vi sentido em deixar n...
Du kan inte skriva ett manuskript i huvudet och tvinga dig själv att följa det. Du måste låta dig själv vara, Richard
Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care...What if being black had all the p...