We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
history
And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.
justice
You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?' Aunty Ifeka said. 'Your life belongs to you and you alone.
men life-lessons
Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.
marriage
Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.
stereotypes power stories
I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.
travel finding-yourself searching
Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal to one dead white person.
racism
Her bladder felt painfully, solidly full, as though it would burst and release not urine but the garbled prayers she was muttering.
perfect
She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.
family-relationships
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