Quotes
Authors
Malina Suliman
"I felt strange in my own family, because I had a very liberal mind, and I would ask myself, "Why is there this discrimination between men and women?" In our culture, the man should be outside and the woman should be at home. I wanted to study, or meet my friends, and I couldn't. And I felt very different." --
Source : "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, nytlive.nytimes.com. May 21, 2015.
Malina Suliman
#Home Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Mind Quotes
“'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way.”
“Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.”
Source : Francis James Grimké (1942). “The Works of Francis J. Grimke,̀: Edited by Carter G. Woodson...”
“We can be the best taught people on the face of the earth but the trouble is we don't live as well as we have been taught.”
“Be satisfied with nothing but your best.”
“I have spent my whole life scared, frightened of things that could happen, might happen, might not happen, 50 years I spent like that. Finding myself awake at three in the morning. But you know what? Ever since my diagnosis, I sleep just fine.”
“The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. … The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.”
“I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!”
“She's the coolest person in the world...I don't date what the person does...You know what I mean? I could have been a zitty teenager and walked into a Tower Records, and we would have talked about Pearl Jam, and we would have fallen in love when we were 15. And that's when you know. It's like, oh, my God, game over.... Listen, there are a lot of women in this country, in many countries, who date men for their money. Okay? That's despicable. Right? That's not what we're talking about here. Whatever does it for you, man.”