Sohaila

“I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace,”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed

“Like the homeless, refugees are living embodiments of a disturbing possibility: that human privileges are quite fragile, that one’s home, family, and nation are one catastrophe away from being destroyed.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees

“I am a bad refugee because I insist on seeing the historical reasons that create refugees and the historical reasons for denying refugee status to certain populations.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees

“Even if refugees, undocumented immigrants, and legal immigrants are not all potential billionaires, that is no reason to exclude them. Even if their fate is to be the high-school dropout and the fast-food cashier, so what? That makes them about as human as the average American, and we are not about to deport the average American (are we?).”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees