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It is one of the things she has come to love about America, the abundance of unreasonable hope.
riots do not happen in a vacuum, that religion and ethnicity are often politicized because the ruler is safe if the hungry ruled are killing one another.
He was in sociology, and although many of us in the proper sciences thought that the social sciences people were empty vessels who had too much time on their hands and wrote reams of unreadable books, we saw Ikenna differently.
People in STEM are so absurd lol
Ikenna, I have come to realize, is a man who carries with him the weight of what could have been.
She had come to understand that American parenting was a juggling of anxieties, and that it came with having too much food: a sated belly gave Americans time to worry that their child might have a rare disease that they had just read about, made them think they had the right to protect their child from disappointment and want and failure. A sated belly gave Americans the luxury of praising themselves for being good parents, as if caring for one’s child were the exception rather than the rule.
She raised the apple to her lips and took a slow bite, her gaze never wavering from Maren’s face.
LMAO
She sat down next to Josh and took a cookie from his plate.
God bless this lady lol
At night, something would wrap itself around your neck, something that very nearly choked you before you fell asleep.
You did not know that people could simply choose not to go to school, that people could dictate to life. You were used to accepting what life gave, writing down what life dictated.
The thing that wrapped itself around your neck, that nearly choked you before you fell asleep, started to loosen, to let go.
How can you love somebody and yet want to manage the amount of happiness that person is allowed?”
“Ukamaka, not everything is about Udenna.”
HE FINALLY SAID IT
At first they stifled their laughter and then they let it out, joyously leaning against each other, while next to them, the woman holding the baby watched.
Camaraderie.
What did it matter that you could or could not take the carts out? The point was, there were carts.
Sis is asking the right questions lol
See how healthy they all look?”
Lmao sir…
At the next table, a black woman with a body as wide as a pillow held sideways smiled at me.
DOUBLE LMAO
