In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in the movies about the civil rights era. Here's the thing: the manifestation of racism has changed but the language has not. So if you haven't lynched somebody then you can't be called a racist. If you're not a bloodsucking monster, then you can't be called a racist. Somebody has to be able to say that racists are not monsters.

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

Your life belongs to you and you alone.

We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.

Culture does not make people. People make culture.

She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs.

If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa.