He had the air of a man to whom corruption was familiar - Narrator about tennis coach, How can you be sending me money from Nigeria? It should be the other way around - Ifem to her parents, I love multicultural names because they have such wonderful meanings, from wonderful rich cultures - Kimberly to Ifem, … the poor were blameless. Poverty was a gleaming thing: she could not conceive of poor people being vicious or nasty because their poverty had canonised them, and the greatest saints were the foreign poor’ - Ifem about Kimberly, Both names, Morgan and Taylor, sounded to X like surnames - Ifem about Kim’s children’s names, We’ve never been to Africa. I would love to do something with my charity in Africa’ - Kim to Ifem about Africa, You’d better not kill my dog with voodoo’ - Roommate to Ifem, He had not forced her. She had come here on her own’ - Narrator on Ifem meeting the tennis coach, Nobody in Kinshasa had panic attacks. It was not even that it was called by another name, it was simply not called at all. Did things begin to exist only when they were named? - Ifem about panic attacks, She would never be able to form the sentences to tell her story - Ifem about the situation with the tennis coach, You just want some space? - Ginika to Ifem about Obinze, she’s just as skinny as the kids, only that her skinniness is by choice and theirs is not by choice. - Laura to Ifem about a picture with celebrity surrounded by dark-skinned African children, X’s repeated apologies were tinged with self-indulgence, as though she believed that she could, with apologies, smooth all the scalloped surfaces of the world. - Ifem about ‘unnecessary apologies of Kim’s, His face sank into a grin. She, too, was the help. The universe was once again arranged as it should be. - Ifem about carpet cleaner, when I met the doctor, I thought of that article and of you and other privileged Africans who are here in this country.’ - Laura to Ifem, I will send you back to Nigeria if you do that again - Aunty Uju to Dike, This place is so white - Aunty Uju to Ifem, It was an act of will - Ifem about her fake American accent, Why was it a compliment, an accomplishment, to sound American? - Ifem after the telemarketer’s call, it was absurd how women’s magazines forced images of smallboned, small-breasted white women on the rest of the multi-boned, multi-ethnic world of women to emulate. - Ifem to Blaine, So do you grow your own cotton and make your own clothes? - Ifem to Blaine, I just want to be regular. - Dike to Ifem, If you’re white, you’re all right; if you’re brown, stick around; if you’re black, get back! - Song by Big Bil Broonzy,

Americanah, ch. 15-17

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