Bahar Joon

“Ken Keyes so wisely said, “More suffering comes into the world by people taking offense than by people intending to give offense.”
― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families”
― Tennessee Williams

“Iranian Americans today find themselves caught in racial loopholes in which they are not white enough to escape racially motivated discrimination and hate crimes, but are too white to reliably secure race-based protection and legal redress for the violent and discriminatory acts committed against them.”
― Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race