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...
Her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out.
A Nigerian couple visiting from Maryland, their two boys sitting next to them on the sofa, both buttoned-up and stiff, caged in the airlessness of their parents' immigrant aspirations.
Teach her that the idea of gender roles is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. Because you are a girl is never a reason for anythi...
¿Por qué la gente preguntaba «De qué trata» como si una novela tuviera que tratar de una sola cosa?
What a beautiful name, Kimberly said. Does it mean anything? I love multicultural names because they have such wonderful meanings, from wonderful rich cultures. Kimberly was smiling the kindly smile o...
The more they talked, the more she told herself that this was no coincidence; there was a significance to her meeting this man on the day that she returned her voice to herself.
The first time I taught a writing class in graduate school, I was worried. Not about the teaching material, because I was well prepared and I was teaching what I enjoyed. Instead I was worried about w...
Still, I was struck by this. Because I am female, I’m expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Marriage can be...
She wanted Azuka to learn the ways of these foreigners, since people ruled over others not because they were better people but because they had better guns;
She thought nothing of slender legs shown off in miniskirts—it was safe and easy, after all, to display legs of which the world approved—but the fat woman’s act was about the quiet conviction that one...
She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was...
Se repetimos uma coisa várias vezes, ela se torna normal. Se vemos uma coisa com frequência, ela se torna normal. Se só os meninos são escolhidos como monitores da classe, então em algum momento nós t...
Perhaps he was not a true writer after all. He had read somewhere that, for true writers, nothing was more important than their art, not even love.
Pasamos demasiado tiempo enseñando a las niñas a preocuparse por lo que piensen de ellas los chicos. Y, sin embargo, con ellos no lo hacemos. No enseñamos a los niños a preocuparse por caer bien. Pasa...
Ojiugo wore orange lipstick and ripped jeans, spoke bluntly, and smoked in public, provoking vicious gossip and dislike from other girls, not because she did these things but because she dared to with...
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.
Let her know that there are many individuals and many cultures that do not find the narrow mainstream definition of beauty attractive.
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 Feminist.
Her entire body was invaded by millions of uncertainties.