Sakshi Mathur

“Cheery pessimism. Or weary idealism. Take your pick.”
― Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies

“Constantly defining yourself in opposition to what others say about you is not self-knowledge. It’s confusion.”
― Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies

“For now, let me try to stay alive and just say these three things: as Muslims, (1) we are more affected by the example of the Prophet than we realize; (2) we are shaped by the stories we tell about him in ways that elude our daily understanding; and (3) there will be no meaningful philosophical shift in the sociopolitical substratum of the Muslim world until the example of the Prophet and the text of the Quran are exposed to a more robust interrogation of their claims to historical truth.”
― Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies

“The established majority takes its we-image from a minority of its best, and shapes a they-image of the despised outsiders from the minority of their worst.”
― Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies