"In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras. I got to fully experience and appreciate both the tragedy of Somalia and the beauty of it."

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Source : "K’naan: Straight Outta Mogadishu". Interview with Eamon Kircher-Allen, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

K'naan

#Beautiful Quotes #War Quotes #Hard Times Quotes

“I used to hate being different. I used to cry. I wanted to be blonde-haired and blue-eyed like all of my girlfriends. My mom and dad would feel so badly - 'No, it's OK. You'll be happy you're different later.”
“Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.137, Macmillan
“We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.”
“My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it'd created the only type of guy I could touch - a fantasy one.”
“Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.”
“I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.”
“To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.”

Source : Lyn Hejinian (2013). “My Life and My Life in the Nineties”, p.56, Wesleyan University Press
“All the books on my shelves, when I would go to them to look for help with my anguish, they all just seemed so crass. They didn't get it. Those books don't understand. Nobody understands. The universe, nobody understands my agony, or my questioning, and it's this shift in what in the world around us could possibly be meaningful or helpful.”

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