Michael L. Barrett

“This, I found, was what happened so often to me in Turkey: You’re learning about a country, you have read books, and so you know what bad things have happened, and where, and then you go to those places, and you can’t help but feel haunted by your knowledge of the invisible past.”
― Suzy Hansen, Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

“But it is very, very rare that young white Americans come across someone who tells them in harsh, unforgiving terms that they might be merely the easy winners of an ugly game, and indeed because of their ignorance and misused power, they might actually be the losers within a greater moral universe.”
― Suzy Hansen, Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World