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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

People
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Nov 07, 2020

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

Leadership
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Nov 07, 2020

If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.

Brother
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Nov 07, 2020

Nobody just leaves medical school, especially given it's fiercely competitive to get in. But I had a sister who was a doctor, another who was a pharmacist, a brother who was an engineer. So my parents already had sensible children who would be able to make an actual living, and I think they felt comfortable sacrificing their one strange child.

Nov 07, 2020

I was tired of everyone saying that when you write about race in America, it has to be nuanced, it has to be subtle, it has to be this and that.

Nice
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm a nice middle-class girl.

Been
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Nov 07, 2020

I must have been an annoying child.

Poor
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Nov 07, 2020

I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

This idea of feminism as a party to which only a select few people get to come - this is why so many women, particularly women of colour, feel alienated from mainstream western academic feminism. Because don't we want it to be mainstream?

Make
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Nov 07, 2020

For me, feminism is a movement for which the end goal is to make itself no longer needed.

Men
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Nov 07, 2020

Girls are socialised in ways that are harmful to their sense of self - to reduce themselves, to cater to the egos of men, to think of their bodies as repositories of shame. As adult women, many struggle to overcome, to unlearn, much of that social conditioning.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't think it's a good thing to talk about women's issues being exactly the same as the issues of trans women because I don't think that's true.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

From the very beginning, I think it's been quite clear that there's no way I could possibly say that trans women are not women. It's the sort of thing to me that's obvious, so I start from that obvious premise.

Nov 07, 2020

I think that because human difference for so long, in all its various forms, has been the root of so much oppression, sometimes there's the impulse to say let's deny the difference, as though by wishing away the difference we can then wish away the oppression.

History
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Nov 07, 2020

I think the history of western feminism is one that is fraught with racism, and I think it's important to acknowledge that and, at the same time, to say that feminism is not the western invention, that my great-grandmother in what is now south-western Nigeria is feminist.

Nov 07, 2020

I think white women need to wake up and say, 'Not all women are white,' three times in front of the mirror.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

I think people are frightened of saying what they think, and I think that's a bad thing for society.

Feel
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Nov 07, 2020

There is, for me, as a black woman, as an African woman, a sense of possibility in America that I don't feel when I'm in Europe.

Go
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Nov 07, 2020

When I go back home now, when I go back to Nigeria now, I get off the plane in Lagos and I just don't think of race. I get on the plane and arrive in Atlanta, and immediately I'm aware of race.

Black
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Nov 07, 2020

In America, I feel black with all of the rubbish that comes with it.

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