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“ليس الموت ، فقط نهاية الحياة !”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world.”
― Arundhati Roy

“By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and replace them with freedom of choice in the marketplace.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“Nobody’s going to save you.
No one’s going to cut you down
cut the thorns around you.
No one’s going to storm
the castle walls nor
kiss awake your birth,
climb down your hair,
nor mount you
onto the white steed.

There is no one who
will feed the yearning.
Face it. You will have
to do, do it yourself.”
― Gloria Anzaldua

“Though we tremble before uncertain futures
may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength
may we dance in the face of our fears.
”
― Gloria Anzaldúa

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“They cuffed his hands, his arms, his waist, and his feet!  Like as if he was resisting!  He wasn’t! ”
― Jenny Rodriguez, Undocumented: The True Stories of Illegal Immigrants and Their Children

“You know, I’m made of immigrant parents, and I’m proud of that. ”
― Jenny Rodriguez, Undocumented: The True Stories of Illegal Immigrants and Their Children

“And they would take you to the bathroom, and they would watch you like 24-7, everything you do.  And they give you certain times when everyone who like shower all together. ”
― Jenny Rodriguez, Undocumented: The True Stories of Illegal Immigrants and Their Children

“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.   —D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study, pg. 20”
― Anaïs Nin, The Quotable Anais Nin: 365 Quotations with Citations

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“(Note the curious suggestion”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“But Keynes was wrong. It turns out that when people make enough money to meet their needs”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals