You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.

Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.

Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?

All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women.

I like the U.S. and feel gratitude towards it.

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new world; rather, it is that the majority have not been given the tools to negotiate this new world.