Kasim Ali
“I just think it would be easier sometimes if we didn’t have all this trailing behind us – family, culture, tradition. Being the most dutiful child you can be. As if all that matters is conforming to what your parents want of you, and all they care about is what other people think of them, of you. We try so hard to be this upstanding family, just in case someone looks closely and sees the cracks.”
― Good Intentions
― Good Intentions
“Sometimes there is an emptiness inside him so large it would take the entire world to fill. It comes and goes as it pleases, triggered by nothing specific.”
― Good Intentions
― Good Intentions
“Because at the end of the day, your fresh-snow-white skin means that you get to walk around without having some white woman cross the street to get away from you, clutching her bag a little tighter because she thinks you’re going to rob her,”
― Good Intentions
― Good Intentions
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