رغْدُ العَيْش

“carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“Must I then lose this admirable being? I have longed for a friend; I have sought one who would sympathise with and love me. Behold, on these desert seas I have found such a one; but I fear I have gained him only to know his value and lose him. I would reconcile him to life, but he repulses the idea.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

“ويا لتبدل جميلة المفاجئ! كانما لم بقى شي من تلك الفتاة الضاحكة الممتلئة الحياة، فقد غمر حزن الربيع الصافي عينيها المطفأتين، وتطوف على شفتيها ابتسامة غامضة حالمة، فقد كانت سعيدة بشي لا يعرفه سواها.”
― Chingiz Aitmatov, Jamilia

“The glorification of one race and the consequent debasement of another—or others—always has been and always will be a recipe for murder. There is no way around this. If one is permitted to treat any group of people with special disfavor because of their race or the color of their skin, there is no limit to what one will force them to endure, and, since the entire race has been mysteriously indicted, no reason not to attempt to destroy it root and branch.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time