Mariette Postma > Mariette's Quotes

“Oppression Olympics is what smart liberal Americans say to make you feel stupid and to make you shut up. But there IS an oppression olympics going on. American racial minorities - blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Jews - all get shit from white folks, different kinds of shit but shit still. Each secretly believes that it gets the worst shit. So, no, there is no United League of the Oppressed. However, all the others think they're better than blacks because, well, they're not black.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“There were disappointments. Things you couldn’t know you had wanted, or even things you were quite certain you hadn’t wanted, but still, as you discovered, missed some aspect of.”
― Sue Miller, The Distinguished Guest

“The idea of black poverty is always presented as the outcome of white wealth, but what South Africa has is a poverty problem, not necessarily a black poverty problem because it is a largely black country.”
― Ferial Haffajee, What if there were no whites in South Africa?