Andrea Martinez

“The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism—the founding of a state based on the ideology of white supremacy, the widespread practice of African slavery, and a policy of genocide and land theft.”
― Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

“And the burqa, [Mariam] learned to her surprise, was also comforting... She no longer worried that people knew, with a single glance, all the shameful secrets of her past.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns