# Quote — Buchi Emecheta, Second-Class Citizen

> Adah could not stop thinking about her discovery that the whites were just as fallible as everyone else. There were bad whites and good whites, just as there were bad blacks and good blacks! Why then did they claim to be superior?

- Author: [Buchi Emecheta](https://www.leafyquotes.com/buchi-emecheta.md)
- Book: [Second-Class Citizen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/buchi-emecheta/second-class-citizen.md)
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> (Chapter 1, Page 15)

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> Then the thought suddenly struck her. Yes, she would go to school.

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> One might think on this evidence that Africans treated their children badly. But to Adah’s people and to Adah herself, this was not so at all; it was the custom. Children, especially girls, were taught to be very useful very early in life, and this had its advantages. For instance, Adah learned very early to be responsible for herself. Nobody was interested in her for her own sake, only in the money she would fetch, and the housework she could do and Adah, happy at being given this opportunity of survival, did not waste time thinking about its rights or wrongs. She had to survive.”

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