"I'm often asked the same question: What in your work comes from your own culture? As if I have a recipe and I can actually isolate the Arab ingredient, the woman ingredient, the Palestinian ingredient. People often expect tidy definitions of otherness, as if identity is something fixed and easily definable."

-- Mona Hatoum

#People Quotes #Identity Quotes #Culture Quotes

“If anybody can find someone to love them and to help them through this difficult thing that we call life, I support that in any shape or form”

Source : "Will Smith backs Obama's gay marriage stance". www.yahoo.com. May 14, 2012.
“There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.”
“a happy birthday this evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness. I could easily have switched on a lamp, but I wanted to ride the day down into night, to sit alone, and smooth the unreadable page with the pale gray ghost of my hand”

Source : Ted Kooser, “A Happy Birthday”
“So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.”
“The use of a mere dozen nuclear weapons ... would be a human catastrophe without parallel. ... Because so few weapons can kill so many people, even far-reaching disarmament proposals would leave us implicated in plans for unprecedented slaughter of innocent people. The sole measure that can free us from this burden is abolition.”
“I'm not interested in being one of those comedians who wants to look good and be this 'cool' funny person. I don't care how weird or ugly I look.”
“The Fox knows many things-the hedgehog one big one.”

Source : Fragment 103 See Isaiah Berlin 1
“I had promised myself when I first got started that if I got to the point my life where I started feeling 'Gee, I'd rather be at home than at work', and that started happening more often than not, that it would be time to leave. I'd wake up some days and go "Oh, I don't even know if I want to go face this anymore". I would, I would go do it, I'm a dutiful kind of person and not afraid of work.”

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