Ibrahim

“For all my talk of being fooled by the language of “Jewish democracy,” it had been right there the whole time. The phrase means what it says—a democracy for the Jewish people and the Jewish people alone.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

“Imagine learning to swim by reading and memorizing the steps of a front crawl but never jumping into a pool. Why do we teach our students this way?”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

“It is said that every day after covering a considerable distance, Napier would ask his Sindhi guide, ‘Who owns this land?’ and every time the answer would be ‘The Bhuttos’. At one stage he told the man, ‘I’m tired and want to sleep. When we come to the place where the Bhutto lands finish, wake me up.’ The guide didn’t have to do so, and as Napier got up from a long spell of sleep he was amazed to learn that they were still in ‘Bhutto territory’.”
― Owen Bennett-Jones, The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan

“Men ate what they had not raised, had no connection with the bread.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath