We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.
“We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other.”
“This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind.”