“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
― Letter to My Daughter
― Letter to My Daughter
“i can’t wrap my head around the fact that i have to convince half the world’s population my body is not their bed”
― The Sun and Her Flowers
― The Sun and Her Flowers
“I’ve been held up as the most powerful woman in the world and taken down as an “angry black woman.” I’ve wanted to ask my detractors which part of that phrase matters to them the most—is it “angry” or “black” or “woman”?”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“Is Islam such a weak religion that it cannot tolerate a book written against it? Not my Islam!”
― I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
― I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
“you want to keep
the blood and the milk hidden
as if the womb and breast
never fed you”
― The Sun and Her Flowers
the blood and the milk hidden
as if the womb and breast
never fed you”
― The Sun and Her Flowers
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