Shai Reads

“Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch their films, read their literature, worship in their churches, and attend their schools. Every third-grade student in the United States is presented with the concept of Europeans discovering America as a "New World" with fertile soil, abundant gifts of nature, and glorious mountains and rivers. Only the most enlightened teachers will explain that this world certainly wasn't new to the millions of indigenous people who already lived here when Columbus arrived.”
― Wilma Mankiller, Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women

“At any moment we'd look each other in the eye and understand there was no longer any solution. That's what I was expecting: a blow, painless and sharp. Then, as difficult as the moment might be, we'd each start over again on our own. And it would all, undoubtedly, be best for both of us.”
― Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Lovers on All Saints' Day: Stories

“Rootlessness had no color, however. It makes no difference to live in one place or another and being born here or there was an accident. One was a chameleon, countries and people mere scenery.”
― Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Lovers on All Saints' Day: Stories

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges