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“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“When the Franks and Turks weren't fighting over Egypt, the only thing they seemed to agree on was that the Egyptians couldn't govern it themselves. God forbid. It's not as though the Egyptians were the inheritors of a great civilization whose mighty monuments still littered the land. Oh, no. They were peasants, superstitious fools who ate too many beans”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“To look around the United States today is enough to make prophets and angels weep.
This is not the land of the free;
it is only sporadically the home of the brave.”
― James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro

“History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history. If we pretend otherwise, we are literally criminals.

I attest to this: the world is not white; it never was white, cannot be white. White is a metaphor for power, and that is simply a way of describing Chase Manhattan Bank.”
― James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro

“If we- and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others- do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms for your existence, has made no room for you, and if love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can. And if one despairs-- as who has not?-- of human love, God's love alone is left.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“...I reread the work of my friend and mentor Amy Krouse Rosenthal, who'd died a few months earlier. She'd once written, 'For anyone trying to discern what to do w/ their life: PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO. That's pretty much all the info u need.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."

(Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2003)”
― Edward W. Said

“سنصعد هذا الجبل
متعبين تماما
و حولي و حولك يأسان
يأسي و يأسك
رعبي و رعبك
يا صاحبي

نحن لسنا جبانين
أو بطلين
ولكننا ولدان بسيطان
مثل مكاتيب فلاحة غربوها
بسيطان
مثل نعاس الرعاة ومثل العطش
بسيطان
كالعائدين من الحقل للبيت
كالعائدين من الويل للبيت
نحن بسيطان
يا ليت قصتنا مثلنا

الطريق إلى السهل هذا الجبل
الطريق إلى الأهل هذا الجبل
كل ما تشتهى ، كل ما أشتهى
يبدأ الآن أو ينتهى
و الأمل ذروة اليأس يا صاحبى
توجع قليلا
توجع كثيرا
توجع
فإن الأمل ذاته موجع حين لا يتبق سواه
سنصعد هذا الجبل !”
― مريد البرغوثي