66 Quotes by Bernardine Evaristo

Courtney added that as she only fancies black men and is likely going to have mixed-race children, her ‘white privilege’ is in any case going to be seriously dented, like at least 50% of it, and it’s incredible in this day and age that she’d never met any black people in the flesh before she came to university from Dartingford which is entirely white except for three Asians.

Let us wonder at how X was just a rare letter until algebra came along and made it something special that can be unravelled to reveal inner value.

Her friendship with Amma is based on historic loyalty and comfortable familiarity rather than shared interests and perspectives.

Thereafter she saw his intellectual showmanship as a performance, deep down he could be as vulnerable as anyone.

We slaves don’t end relationships. Other people do it for us. Often we don’t start them either, other people do it for us. We’re encouraged to breed merely to increase the workforce.

Courtney replied that she herself is a big fan of the non sequitur which really only means that a conversation is free-flowing and intuitive, as opposed to following a predictable trajectory, so to speak.

I wish you were around to be her grandma, to tell her what it was like for you growing up, and stories about me from when I was too young to remember.

Very small children don’t care about skin colour, Rachel, until they’re brainwashed by their parents.

Divorce: such a spiteful-sounding word – but such an appealing concept. Marriage: such a softly seductive word – but such a spiteful reality.