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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Doris Lessing, who made me think in uncomfortably explicit ways about girls and freedom,
Claire Dederer • Love and Trouble
literary “whiteness.” What is it for?
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
Helene Wright was an impressive woman, at least in Medallion she was. Heavy hair in a bun, dark eyes arched in a perpetual query about other people’s manners. A woman who won all social battles with presence and a conviction of the legitimacy of her authority.
Toni Morrison • Sula
“I think of beauty as an absolute necessity. I don’t think it’s a privilege or an indulgence, it’s not even a quest. I think it’s almost like knowledge, which is to say, it’s what we were born for. I think finding, incorporating and then representing beauty is what humans do. With or without authorities telling us what it is... See more
Shane Parrish • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
“Yes,” Bankole said. “In spite of his scars, he’s a good-looking boy. I wonder whether his looks have saved him or destroyed him. Or both.”
Octavia E. Butler • Parable of the Talents: winner of the Nebula Award (Parable 2)
Her gaze is not as comprehensive as his—she misses the details sometimes—but the things that she does see, she can link up quickly in her mind to the things that she knows about women and men, victims and murderers. She can shape them with
Michael Chabon • The Yiddish Policemen's Union
has occurred to me that the very manner by which American literature distinguishes itself as a coherent entity exists because of this unsettled and unsettling population.