Asma Chellali

“Once upon a time they was two girls," I say. "one girl had black skin, one girl had white."
Mae Mobley look up at me. She listening.
"Little colored girl say to little white girl, 'How come your skin be so pale?' White girl say, 'I don't know. How come your skin be so black? What you think that mean?'
"But neither one a them little girls knew. So little white girl say, 'Well, let's see. You got hair, I got hair.'"I gives Mae Mobley a little tousle on her head.
"Little colored girl say 'I got a nose, you got a nose.'"I gives her little snout a tweak. She got to reach up and do the same to me.
"Little white girl say, 'I got toes, you got toes.' And I do the little thing with her toes, but she can't get to mine cause I got my white work shoes on.
"'So we's the same. Just a different color', say that little colored girl. The little white girl she agreed and they was friends. The End."
Baby Girl just look at me. Law, that was a sorry story if I ever heard one. Wasn't even no plot to it. But Mae Mobley, she smile and say, "Tell it again.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“الموت في الثورة حل صالح لجميع المشاكل، يموت الخائن، ويموت المسبل، يموت الأثنان موته واحدة ... يموت الأول لتستريح منه الثورة ... لكن الثاني لماذا يموت؟ ألتستريح منه الثورة أيضًا؟ يا للقسوة...”
― الطاهر وطار, اللاز

“يكفي..يكفي تلك المحاولات التي نبذل فيها أعمارنا لنثبت لهم فقط أنَّنا أُناس صالحون..مثاليون..جيدون كما يريدوننا،دون أن نفكر للحظة واحدة أنهم لو أرادونا يوماً لتقبلونا يما نحن عليه،ولما كانوا ليتركونا علي الجانب المظلم و يعبروا علي أجسادنا إلي الجانب الآخر..حيث أحلامهم التي لم و لن نكون إحداها علي الإطلاق!.”
― دعاء عبد الرحمن, ولو بعد حين

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations