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Rifqa
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I have chosen you, my homeland, in love and in obedience in secret and in public.
“was strange, learning the contours of another’s loneliness. You could never know it all at once; like stepping inside a dark cave, you felt along the walls, bumped into jagged edges.”
― The Mothers
― The Mothers
“You wouldn’t want a son?” “Too dangerous,” he said. “Black boys are target practice. At least black girls got a chance.”
― The Mothers
― The Mothers
“That’s what happens when you get old. Every part of you drops, as if the body is moving closer to where it’s from and where it’ll return.”
― The Mothers
― The Mothers
“You didn’t know how desperate you could be until you were.”
― The Mothers
― The Mothers
“It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals in order for people today to recognize their potential agency as a part of an ever-expanding community of struggle.”
― Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
― Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
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