Abhilasha Singh

“Is it not odd that when we arrive at a new place living its new moment we start to look for our old things in it? Is there something new for strangers? Or do they go around the world with baskets full of the stains of the past? The stains fall but the hand does not drop the basket.”

Excerpt From: Mourid Barghouti. “I Saw Ramallah”.”
― Mourid Barghouti

“The Occupation has created generations of us that have to adore an unknown beloved: distant, difficult, surrounded by guards, by walls, by nuclear missiles, by sheer terror.”

Excerpt From: Mourid Barghouti. “I Saw Ramallah”.”
― Mourid Barghouti

“Politics is the number of coffee-cups on the table, it is the sudden presence of what you have forgotten, the memories you are afraid to look at too closely, though you look anyway. Staying away from politics is also politics. Politics is nothing and it is everything.”

Excerpt From: Mourid Barghouti. “I Saw Ramallah”.”
― Mourid Barghouti

“Maybe everything bad that happens to you makes you weaker," said Giovanni, as though he had not heard me, "and so you can stand less and less.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room