I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly what white privilege is, that you can say that. Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.

Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.

Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye … I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature.

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.