Ali Latifi

“Carpetbaggers with no culture or moral compass, enabled and empowered with new money.”
― Eddie Huang, Fresh Off the Boat

“The blast wave that passed through my sister’s office doubtless passed through devout Muslims, atheist Muslims, gay Muslims, funny Muslims, and lovestruck Muslims—not to mention Pakistani Christians, Chinese engineers, American security contractors, and Indian Sikhs. What civilization, then, did the bomb target? And from what civilization did it originate?”
― Mohsin Hamid, Discontent and Its Civilizations

“Our civilizations do not cause us to clash. No, our clashing allows us to pretend we belong to civilizations.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Discontent and Its Civilizations

“Human beings don’t necessarily exist inside of (or correspond to) the neat racial, gendered, or national boxes into which we often unthinkingly place them.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Discontent and Its Civilizations