Ibi Zoboi

“We have to become everything that we want. Consume it. Like our lwas.”

— Ibi Zoboi

“Don't give me no 'but you're beautiful on the inside' bullshit." "No, you are beautiful on the outside," I say. "Don't give…

— Ibi Zoboi

“Even as you kept telling me that I'm becoming a woman, you never let me go out into the world to be…

— Ibi Zoboi

“We fold our immigrant selves into this veneer of what we think is African American girlhood. The result is more jagged than…

— Ibi Zoboi