“Mami wanted me to be a lady:
sit up straight, cross my ankles,
let men protect me.
Papi wanted me to be a leader.
To think quick & strike hard,
to speak rarely, but when I did,
to always be heard. Me?
Playing chess taught me a queen is both:
deadly & graceful, poised & ruthless.
Quiet & cunning. A queen
offers her hand to be kissed,
& can form it into a fist
while smiling the whole damn time.
But what happens when those principles
only apply in a game? & in the real world,
I am not treated as a lady or a queen,
as a defender or opponent
but as a girl so many want to strike off the board.”
― Clap When You Land
sit up straight, cross my ankles,
let men protect me.
Papi wanted me to be a leader.
To think quick & strike hard,
to speak rarely, but when I did,
to always be heard. Me?
Playing chess taught me a queen is both:
deadly & graceful, poised & ruthless.
Quiet & cunning. A queen
offers her hand to be kissed,
& can form it into a fist
while smiling the whole damn time.
But what happens when those principles
only apply in a game? & in the real world,
I am not treated as a lady or a queen,
as a defender or opponent
but as a girl so many want to strike off the board.”
― Clap When You Land
“المرأه تفكر بالأشياء الحزينه. إذا لم تجد ما يكفيها من الحزن، بحثت عنه عند الآخرين.
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الصمت دواء؛ تعلَمت أن أتجرَع هذا الدواء في كل الأوقات و من ثم أشفى.”
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الحرية والوطن شيء واحد”
― شرق المتوسط
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الصمت دواء؛ تعلَمت أن أتجرَع هذا الدواء في كل الأوقات و من ثم أشفى.”
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الحرية والوطن شيء واحد”
― شرق المتوسط
“كان العذاب الحقيقى هو الافتقاد,الإحساس بترفدى بالكون وليس هناك من يقدم لى يد العون,نجم ضائع فى مجرة بالغة الاتساع,يمكن أن يسقط فى أى ثقب اسود دون أن يترك اثرا”
― طبيب أرياف
― طبيب أرياف
“؟ لأول مرة أرى ذلك الشيء الذي يصدع القلب على مرمى كلمة واحدة مني، كأننا على مسرح إغريقي نعيش مشهداً من ذلك الحزن الذي لا يداوى.”
― أم سعد
― أم سعد
“The slow overture of rain,
each drop breaking
without breaking into
the next, describes
the unrelenting, syncopated
mind. Not unlike
the hummingbirds
imagining their wings
to be their heart, and swallows
believing the horizon
to be a line they lift
and drop.
—Jorie Graham, from “Mind,” Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts. (Princeton University Press; First Edition edition June 21, 1980)”
― Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts
each drop breaking
without breaking into
the next, describes
the unrelenting, syncopated
mind. Not unlike
the hummingbirds
imagining their wings
to be their heart, and swallows
believing the horizon
to be a line they lift
and drop.
—Jorie Graham, from “Mind,” Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts. (Princeton University Press; First Edition edition June 21, 1980)”
― Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts
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