She was not curvy or big-boned; she was fat, it was the only word that felt true. And she had ignored, too, the cement in her soul.
Never speak of marriage as an achievement.
Look at you. You're the kindest person I know. Look how beautiful you are. Why do you need so much outside of yourself? Why isn't what you are enough?
If the justification for controlling women's bodies were about women themselves, then it would be understandable. If, for example, the reason was 'women should not wear short skirts because they can g...
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.
Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist.
In that strained, still second when her eyes met Christina Tomas's before she took the forms, she shrank. She shrank like a dried leaf. She had spoken English all her life, led the debating society in...
Às vezes a vida começa quando o casamento acaba.
His own will always be seen as different
We have a world full of women who are unable to exhale fully because they have for so long been conditioned to fold themselves into shapes to make themselves likeable.
These Nigerianshave been raised to think of women as inherently guilty. And they have been raised to
The only reason you say that race was not an issue is because you wish it was not. We all wish is was not. But it’s a lie. I came from a country where race was not an issue; I did not think myself as...
The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody said.
Qui, dunque, parliamo di genere. Qualcuno dirà: Oh, ma sono le donne ad avere il vero potere: il bottom power (cioè il potere del fondoschiena, un modo di dire nigeriano per indicare l'uso che certe d...
Quante altre persone erano diventate nere in America?
Nature’s first green is gold.
It felt strange to call them directly, to hear her father’s Hello? after the second ring, and when he heard her voice, he raised his, almost shouting, as he always did with international calls. Her mo...
But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage, but we don’t teach boys to do the same? I
They probably don't really like pale skin but they certainly like walking into a store without some security dude following them. Hating Your Goy and Eating One Too, as the great Philip Roth put it. S...
We use the word respect to mean something a women shows a man, but not often something a man shows a woman.