That’s part of fashion’s promise: that a girlfriend or boyfriend or a promotion are just one tie or sweater or pair of shoes away. Rumaan Alam Read Quote
I think that in the cultural imagination, motherhood has a primacy that fatherhood just doesn’t; and that’s not to say that there aren’t many fathers who are active and engaged and for whom that is their life’s passion. But somehow, in the imagination, there’s something different about maternity. Rumaan Alam Read Quote
When I was somewhere between child and adult, my father left us. My first family broke apart, but this liberated me to create a new family as I pleased. Rumaan Alam Read Quote
Children’s literature – the product of adult guesswork – often fails to account for its audience’s slippery grasp on the world. Rumaan Alam Read Quote
Class is very, very fertile territory for American artists, and it has been for a long time. Rumaan Alam Read Quote
Baking is a matter of precision and timing, but I just make things up as I go. Rumaan Alam Read Quote
To be five years old is to be surprised by life. I’m amused by my children’s awe at quotidian things – a toy helicopter, a bubble bath, the visible tentacles on a plate of calamari. And I’m envious of their ability to attain something I often can’t: a state of transcendence induced by art. Rumaan Alam Read Quote
History is a story like any other, but black history is a story so devoid of logic that it frustrates the young reader. The young readers in my house, told of slavery and segregation, asked in disbelief, ‘What? Why?’ We – the parents of black children, the parents of all children – still need to tell that story. Rumaan Alam Read Quote
