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Everything I Know About Love

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Apr 24, 2024 07:26AM

“To recognise something is, then, to perceive clearly what on some level you have known all along, but that perhaps you did not want to know.”
― Isabella Hammad, Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

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“The otherness that comes at you from the world has been inside you all along.”
― Isabella Hammad, Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

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“Prayer is meant to be a personal expression, not a chore or an empty ritual. You can pray silently by yourself or out loud, and you can pray alone or in a group, as long as everyone in that group is also Yazidi.”
― Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

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“It’s one thing to see shifts on an individual level, but quite another to see them on an institutional or governmental one. To induce a person’s change of heart is different from challenging the tremendous force of collective denial.”
― Isabella Hammad, Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

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“Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs. The ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile, and who love you no matter what.”
― Maya Angelou

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