Nicole

“There’s never been a wall that people haven’t been able to get by.”
― Samira Ahmed, Internment

“What’s that thing people always say about history? Unless we know our history, we’re doomed to repeat it? Never forget? Isn’t that the lesson? But we always forget. Forgetting is in the American grain.”
― Samira Ahmed, Internment

“Praying is important. But you can’t simply pray for what you want. You have to act.”
― Samira Ahmed, Internment

“They clung to their belief in the American ideals of equality and freedom of religion even when they heard our leaders say that men gathering around Confederate statues with hands raised in Nazi salute were “very fine people.”
― Samira Ahmed, Internment