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“It is there in the white men and women who do not understand, to the point of frustration, why we still walk with the noose of our ancestors around our necks, as we cannot comprehend how they do not carry the indignity of their ancestors tying it there.”
― The Good Immigrant
― The Good Immigrant
“If cultures were to survive in England it would be on the shoulders of bastardisation”
― The Good Immigrant
― The Good Immigrant
“You cannot have meaning without knowledge of the environment from which it stems.”
― The Good Immigrant
― The Good Immigrant
“Us and Them. She thought on these words. Her daughter was both, but that wouldn't matter to them. That word again. Us and Them. Peace and Terror. Right and Wrong. Questions philosophers had centuries over been unable to answer and yet now everyone seemed to be so sure they knew.”
― The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write
― The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write
“Cutting someone's heart out with a spoon would be an unwise thing to do.”
― The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write
― The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write
“With my family and friends I am Chimene - layered in cultures and afforded the romance of such a name. With the state I am Shimen - conciliatory and afraid that my difference is a thing of difficulty for the British.”
― The Good Immigrant
― The Good Immigrant
