“By the way, I believe that the most remarkable ethnic group in the world is the Black American tribe. Look at them, cheated of so much, but their culture dominates the world.”
-Dream Count
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The Black American Tribe
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Think Of Them Like The Jews
“Somebody was reading a novel about the Nigerian-Biafran war and said, ‘It’s really fascinating, but honestly I’m still a bit confused about why the Igbo people were massacred?’ And I said that to understand Igbo people in Nigeria, think of them like the Jews. People say don’t trust Igbo people because they want to control everything and they love money and they’re too pushy.”
-Dream Count
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The Sweetest Feminist
We teach girls to shrink themselves
To make themselves smaller
We say to girls
“You can have ambition
But not too much
You should aim to be successful
But not too successful
Otherwise you will threaten the man”
Because I am female
I am expected to aspire to marriage
I am expected to make my life choices
Always keeping in mind that
Marriage is the most important
Now marriage can be a source of
Joy and love and mutual support
But why do we teach to aspire to marriage
And we don’t teach boys the same?
We raise girls to see each other as competitors
Not for jobs or for accomplishments
Which I think can be a good thing
But for the attention of men
We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings
In the way that boys are
Feminist: the person who believes in the social
Political, and economic equality of the sexes.
-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie