We are very ideological about fiction in this country. If a character is not familiar, then that character becomes unbelievable.
The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership. We
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 reason for anyt...
So instead of teaching Chizalum to be likeable, teach her to be honest. And kind.
She imagines the cocoa brown of Nnedi's eyes lighting up, her lips moving quickly, explaining that riots do not happen in a vacuum, that religion and ethnicity are often politicized because the ruler...
Racism should never have happened and so you don’t get a cookie for reducing it. Still
Quante altre persone erano diventate nere in America?
Papa sat down at the table and poured his tea from the china tea set with pink flowers on the edges. I waited for him to ask Jaja and me to take a sip, as he always did. A love sip, he called it, beca...
Nossa premissa feminista é: eu tenho valor. Eu tenho igualmente valor. Não se. Não enquanto. Eu tenho igualmente valor. E ponto final.
My Fellow Non-American Blacks: In America, You Are Black, Baby 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 Gha...
If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over it becomes normal.
I now know that nothing he does will make my life change. My life will change only if I want it to change.
He was not living his life; life was living him
Ella no entendía el grunge , la idea de ofrecer un aspecto sucio porque podias permitirte no ir sucio, era una burla para los verdaderamente sucios.
Because this is America. You’re supposed to pretend that you don’t notice certain things.
A book did not qualify as literature unless it had polysyllabic words and incomprehensible passages.
She thought of him as a person who did not have a normal spine, but had instead, a firm reed of goodness.
The longer she spent in America, the better she had become at distinguishing, sometimes from looks and gait, but mostly from bearing and demeanor, that fine-grained mark that culture stamps on people....
كلما كتب قلّت أحلامه
They never said I don’t know. They said, instead, I’m not sure, which did not give any information but still suggested the possibility of knowledge.