Charity

“The visual and auditory information that enters the mind is distorted by experiences, thoughts, circumstances, wild fancies, prejudices, preferences, knowledge, awareness, and countless other workings of the mind.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Tales from the Cafe

“Race, it turns out, is above all a politically useful fiction.”
― Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

“All immigrants walk around with a scar left behind by their crossing into a new country, an invisible mark of the exile that became their condition when they were uprooted.”
― Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

“From my mother and grandmother, I learned about faith as a private relationship with the cosmic, which did not need to be measured by adherence to strict rules and rituals.”
― Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America