Peter Polites

“Few of us realised that we came here to clean their toilets. This country tricked people into thinking that they loved multiculturalism. Made them think that this country was working. That this country was all right when it wasn’t. When the woman Prime Minister lost the election? Remember what I said to you? I knew this country would never tolerate a woman prime minister, this is a country of misogynists, I said that to you. The way this country doesn’t understand women is the way they don’t understand migrants.”
― Peter Polites, God Forgets About the Poor

“And I don’t think I can see the bodies of the communists in my mind but there was a smell to them. You don’t forget smells because your nose won’t let you. I won’t tell my grandchildren about those memories that are in my nostrils. I will show them how to combine egg and lemon in a soup. And I will teach them how to make Greek words plural.”
― Peter Polites, God Forgets About the Poor