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Hessa Alsager Alzayed
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“For most of my childhood I was caught between my brother’s fury and my mother’s sad searching.”
― The Meaning of Mariah Carey
― The Meaning of Mariah Carey
“Children can be mean, but when ordinary meanness is combined with racism, it takes on a peculiar brutality, one very often sanctioned by (and learned from) adults.”
― The Meaning of Mariah Carey
― The Meaning of Mariah Carey
“One of the cops, looking down at me but speaking to another cop beside him, said, “If this kid makes it, it’ll be a miracle.” And that night, I became less of a kid and more of a miracle.”
― The Meaning of Mariah Carey
― The Meaning of Mariah Carey
“Everybody out there, don't ever take anybody for granted, 'cause you never know when you might lose them and you may never get the chance to tell them how you really feel.”
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“My siblings and my mother wouldn’t communicate for most of the year, so by Christmas dinner my brother and sister would come stuffed with hurt and anger, starving for attention. Eventually, inevitably, they would all explode in a torrent of verbal abuse. I would sit there in the center of the chaos, crying and wishing: wishing they would stop screaming, wishing my mother could stop them from screaming and cursing. Wishing I could be somewhere safe and merry—somewhere that felt like Christmas”
― The Meaning of Mariah Carey
― The Meaning of Mariah Carey
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