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Starfish
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It’s strange—hope can make you forget so much, so quickly. That’s why hoping is so dangerous.
“When the Franks and Turks weren't fighting over Egypt, the only thing they seemed to agree on was that the Egyptians couldn't govern it themselves. God forbid. It's not as though the Egyptians were the inheritors of a great civilization whose mighty monuments still littered the land. Oh, no. They were peasants, superstitious fools who ate too many beans”
― The City of Brass
― The City of Brass
“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."
(Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2003)”
―
(Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2003)”
―
“If we- and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others- do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“سنصعد هذا الجبل
متعبين تماما
و حولي و حولك يأسان
يأسي و يأسك
رعبي و رعبك
يا صاحبي
نحن لسنا جبانين
أو بطلين
ولكننا ولدان بسيطان
مثل مكاتيب فلاحة غربوها
بسيطان
مثل نعاس الرعاة ومثل العطش
بسيطان
كالعائدين من الحقل للبيت
كالعائدين من الويل للبيت
نحن بسيطان
يا ليت قصتنا مثلنا
الطريق إلى السهل هذا الجبل
الطريق إلى الأهل هذا الجبل
كل ما تشتهى ، كل ما أشتهى
يبدأ الآن أو ينتهى
و الأمل ذروة اليأس يا صاحبى
توجع قليلا
توجع كثيرا
توجع
فإن الأمل ذاته موجع حين لا يتبق سواه
سنصعد هذا الجبل !”
―
متعبين تماما
و حولي و حولك يأسان
يأسي و يأسك
رعبي و رعبك
يا صاحبي
نحن لسنا جبانين
أو بطلين
ولكننا ولدان بسيطان
مثل مكاتيب فلاحة غربوها
بسيطان
مثل نعاس الرعاة ومثل العطش
بسيطان
كالعائدين من الحقل للبيت
كالعائدين من الويل للبيت
نحن بسيطان
يا ليت قصتنا مثلنا
الطريق إلى السهل هذا الجبل
الطريق إلى الأهل هذا الجبل
كل ما تشتهى ، كل ما أشتهى
يبدأ الآن أو ينتهى
و الأمل ذروة اليأس يا صاحبى
توجع قليلا
توجع كثيرا
توجع
فإن الأمل ذاته موجع حين لا يتبق سواه
سنصعد هذا الجبل !”
―
“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
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