Abdalrhman Adel

“يصل الموهوبون حقاً وحتماً إلى القِمَّة، حتى لو لم يُعترف بمواهبهم فى حياتهم، حتى لو أُبخِسوا قدرهم من الجميع. وكل ما ينقص المُبدع فى أى مجالٍ كان، هو التسلح بالثقة والصبر والإيمان والمُثابره والعلم...وأن يحذَرَ الغرورَ والكسَل، واليأس والغضَب....والإحباط!”
― شادي عبد السلام, اقرئي يا بلادي

“It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh - I really think that requires spirit.
It's the kind of character that I am going to develop. I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skillfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh - also if I win.”
― Jean Webster, Daddy Long Legs

“Liberation as an intellectual mission, born in the resistance and opposition to the confinements and ravages of imperialism, has now shifted from the settled, established, and domesticated dynamics of culture to its unhoused, decentred, and exilic energies, energies whose incarnation today is the migrant, and whose conciousness is that of the intellectual and artist in exile, the political figure between domains, between forms, between homes, and between languages. From this perspective then all things are indeed counter, original, spare, strange. From this perspective also, one can see 'the complete consort dancing together' contrapuntally.”
― Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa