They have literally nothing

She hoped her driver would not be a Nigerian, because he, once he heard her accent, would either be aggressively eager to tell her that he had a master’s

from Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

And this, I realized, is the excrutiating scrupulosity, the same maddening, meticulous attention to every last detail that makes you great, that keeps you going and got you through...

from The Ghostwriter by Philip Roth

She laid claim to the past—her version of the past—aggressively, as if retrieving misdirected mail. So this was where she came from. This all belonged to her, her birthright,...

from White Teeth by Zadie Smith