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“One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.”
― Khalil Gibran

“Meet your obligations. But obligations never prevented anyone from following their dreams. Remember that you are a manifestation of the absolute, and do only those things in your life that are worth the effort. Only those who do that will understand the great transformations that are yet to be seen.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.”
― Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men

“في الدكتاتوريات، أفضل الصناعات الوطنية وأكثرها إتقانا ومتانة وتغليفا وسرعة في التوصيل إلى المنازل، هي صناعة الخوف”
― مريد البرغوثي, ولدت هناك .. ولدت هنا

“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X [Japanese-Language Edition].

“Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from
Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“If someone says: That's impossible.

You should understand it as:
According to my very limited experience and narrow understanding of reality, that's very unlikely”
― Paul Buchheit

“السلطة الباطشة هي ذاتها عربية كانت أو إسرائيلية. القسوة هي القسوة والانتهاك هو الانتهاك أيا كان الفاعل. المؤلم هو غياب آلية قانونية واضحة لمابعد الاعتقال”
― مريد البرغوثي, ولدت هناك .. ولدت هنا

“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

“to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.”
― Ellen Bass

“I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason”
― Naguib Mahfouz, The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street

“Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.”
― Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk

“It seems clear that the Arab East still sees the West as a natural enemy. Against that enemy, any hostile action-be it political, military, or based on oil-is considered no more than legitimate vengeance. And there can be no doubt that the schism between these two worlds dates from the Crusades, deeply felt by the Arabs, even today, as an act of rape”
― Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

“The land and everything on it can be taken away, but no one can take away your knowledge or the degrees you earn”
― Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin

“We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her”
― Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin

“Love cannot reconcile with deception”
― Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin

“In Libya, you are made aware the whole time of the abandonment of things, the material leftovers of receding cultures”
― Ronald Bruce St. John, Libya: From Colony to Independence

“Islam later provided the most persuasive and effective ideological foundation to rally Libyan opposition to continued Italian occupation”
― Ronald Bruce St. John, Libya: From Colony to Independence

“It's so hot, Mister Dunn's rooster walks in my door and squats his red self right in front of my kitchen fan. I come in to find him looking at me like 'I ain't moving nowhere, lady”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help