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L'unica ragione per cui dici che la razza non e un problema e perche vorresti che non lo fosse. Tutti lo vorremmo, ma e falso. Vengo da un paese in cui la razza non e un problema ; non mi sono mai pensata nera e lo sono diventata solo al mio arrivo in America. Se sei nero in America e ti innamori di un bianco, la razza non e un problema finche siete da soli, perche siete solo voi e il vostro amore. Ma appena esci fuori la razza ha importanz..
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She had taught her son the ability to be, even in the middle of a crowd, somehow comfortably inside himself.
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all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness. They would not understand why people like him, who were raised well fed and watered but mired in dissatisfaction, conditioned from birth to look towards somewhere else, eternally convinced that real lives happened in that somewhere else, were now resolved to ..
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I know we could accept the things we can't be for each other, and even turn it into the poetic tragedy of our lives. Or we could act. I want to act. I want this to happen. Kosi is a good
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If we do something over and over, it becomes normal.
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Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure.
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Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.
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men hans osakerhet tystade honom varje gang; han var radd for vad hon skulle svara.
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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 of unreality, the careful manipulation of images to create a parallel life, pictures that people had taken with Facebook in mind, placing in the background the things of which they were proud.
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Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.
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Hon misstankte alltid att han hade ratt.
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Du kan inte skriva ett manuskript i huvudet och tvinga dig sjalv att folja det. Du maste lata dig sjalv vara, Richard
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Nu vet jag att inget han gor kommer att forandra mitt liv. Mitt liv kommer bara att forandras om jag vill att det ska forandras.
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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.
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Later, when she came to know of the letters he wrote to Congress about Darfur, the teenagers he tutored at the high school on Dixwell, the shelter he volunteered at, she thought of him as a person who did not have a normal spine but had, instead, a firm reed of goodness.
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And have your white friend say how funny it is, that American pollsters ask white and black people if racism is over. White people in general say it is over and black people in general say it is not. Funny indeed. More suggestions for what you should have your white friend say? Please post away. And here's to all the white friends who get it.
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did not talk to people, they instead talked at people,
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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. He
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If we keep seeing only men as heads of corporations, it starts to seem 'natural' that only men should be heads of corporations.
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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.
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the most unforgettable dinner parties happened when guests said unexpected, and potentially offensive, things. The
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her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out.
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Of course, of course, but my point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe,' Master said. 'I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. But I was Igbo before the white man came.
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Blaine needed what she was unable to give and she needed what he was unable to give, and she grieved this, the loss of what could have been. So
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maybe it's time to just scrap the word "racist." Find something new. Like Racial Disorder Syndrome. And we could have different categories for sufferers of this syndrome: mild, medium, and acute. CHAPTER 35 Ifemelu woke up one night to go to the bathroom, and heard Blaine in the living room, talking on the phone, his tone gentle and solacing."
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If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over it becomes normal.
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Gender matters everywhere in the world. And I would like today to ask what we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently.
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We define masculinity in very narrow way. Masculinity is hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage. We teach boys to be afraid of fear, of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves, because they have to be, in Nigerian-speak-- a hard man.
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Aunty Ifeoma came the next day, in the evening, when the orange trees started to cast long, wavy shadows across the water fountain in the front yard. Her laughter floated upstairs into the living room, where I sat reading. I had not heard it in two years, but I would know that cackling, hearty sound anywhere. Aunty Ifeoma was as tall as Papa, with a well-proportioned body. She walked fast, like one who knew just where she was going and what..
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Besides, humility had always seemed to him a specious thing, invented for the comfort of others; you were praised for humility by people because you did not make them feel any more lacking than they already did. It was honesty that he valued; he had always wished himself to be truly honest, and always feared that he was not.
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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 her right size.
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feminism. If anything, it makes us see the extent of the problem, the successful reach of patriarchy. It shows us, too, that not all women are feminists and not all men are misogynists.
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So, do you plan to go to Aokpe?" Father Amadi asked. "I was not really planning to. But I suppose we will have to go now, I will find out the next apparition date." "People are making this whole apparition thing up. Didn't they say Our Lady was appearing at Bishop Shanahan Hospital the other time? And then that she was appearing in Transekulu?" Obiora asked. "Aokpe is different. It has all the signs of Lourdes," Amaka said. "Besides, it's ..
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It had become a routine of Ifemelu's visits: Aunty Uju collected all her dissatisfactions in a silk purse, nursing them, polishing them, and then on the Saturday of Ifemelu's visit, while Bartholomew was out and Dike upstairs, she would spill them out on the table, and turn each one this way and that, to catch the light.
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What I've noticed being here is that many English people are in awe of America but also deeply resent it," Obinze added. "Perfectly true," Phillip said, nodding at Obinze. "Perfectly true. It's the resentment of a parent whose child has become far more beautiful and with a far more interesting life."
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We do a great disservice to boys in how we raise them. We stifle the humanity of boys. We define masculinity in a narrow way. Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage. We teach boys to be afraid of fear, of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves, because they have to be, in Nigerian-speak--a .
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El problema del genero es que prescribe como 'tenemos que ser', en vez de reconocer como somos realmente. Imaginese lo felices que seriamos, lo libres que seriamos siendo quienes somos en realidad, sin sufrir la carga de las expectativas de genero.
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At the checkout, the blond cashier asked, "Did anybody help you?" "Yes," Ginika said. "Chelcy or Jennifer?" "I'm sorry, I don't remember her name." Ginika looked around, to point at her helper, but both young women had disappeared into the fitting rooms at the back. "Was it the one with long hair?" the cashier asked. "Well, both of them had long hair." "The one with dark hair?" Both of them had dark hair. Ginika smiled and looked at the cas..
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Ukamaka watched him and thought how much more subdued Catholic Masses were in America; how in Nigeria it would have been a vibrant green branch from a mango tree that the priest would dip in a bucket of holy water held by a hurrying, sweating Mass-server; how he would have stridden up and down, splashing and swirling, holy water raining down; how the people would have been drenched; and how, smiling and making the sign of the cross, they wo..
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Ifemelu bristled at Chetachi's goading. Still, it was her mother's fault, to so eagerly tell the neighbors her mentor story. She should not have; it was nobody's business what Aunty Uju did. Ifemelu had overheard her telling somebody in the backyard, "You see, The General wanted to be a doctor when he was young, and so now he helps young doctors, God is really using him in people's lives." And she sounded sincere, cheerful, convincing. She ..
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There are people who say, 'Well, your name is also about patriarchy because it is your father's name.' Indeed. But the point is simply this: whether it came from my father or from the moon, it is the name that I have had since I was born, the name with which I travelled my life's milestones, the name I have answered to since the first day I went to kindergarten in Nsukka on a hazy morning and my teacher said, 'Answer "present" if you hear y..
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