Tope Folarin quotes

Growing up, I experienced this viscerally because my parents are from Nigeria, I was born and raised in America and my parents tried to hand over that identity card and that didn't fit me because I was growing up in a context in which their identity didn't necessarily line up with how I saw myself... (Tope Folarin)
The sometimes-negative aspect of growing up in this country without a firm cultural basis is that your entire being becomes predicated on satisfying others. And I discovered that's what I was doing... View quote
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He's hitting hard against what the American societal definition of what being a black man is and also a diasporic Nigerian conception of what being a black man is. View quote
Tope Folarin