“Do you know, Mother, that Haj Salem was buried alive in his home? Does he tell you stories in heaven now? I wish I had had a chance to meet him. To see his toothless grin and touch his leathery skin. To beg him, as you did in your youth, for a story from our Palestine. He was over one hundred years old, Mother. To have lived so long, only to be crushed to death by a bulldozer. Is this what it means to be Palestinian?”
― Mornings in Jenin
― Mornings in Jenin
“We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.”
― Mornings in Jenin
― Mornings in Jenin
“Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.”
― The Two Towers
― The Two Towers
“We believe the one who has power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you must ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there you get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture.”
― Homegoing
― Homegoing
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