"If you silence yourself, if you try to be good, if you try to be polite, or toe a party line, you end up paying for that in the long run. You pay for it . . . with your homeland, or with your soul, or with your artistic vision."

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Source : "Diana Abu-Jaber: The Only Response to Silencing is to Keep Speaking". Interview with Andrea Shalal-Esa, www.aljadid.com. 2002.

Diana Abu-Jaber

#Running Quotes #Party Quotes #Long Quotes

“Life should be great rather than long.”
“Make sure you meet the right people, people who know that industry and are willing to help you. Do your homework - read books about the industry, talk to people. If you don't know something, ask.”
“Tomorrow, Trubshawe, I am going to get married again, thereby quite possibly making the greatest mistake of my life.”
“I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice.”

Source : "Selected writings of Shaheed Bhagat Singh" by Bhagat Singh, (p. 65), 1986.
“I think of myself of a primitivist. I have never had any of these electronic instruments and I have never had the slightest interest in using them. I use the computer as a tool, simply because it makes composing a lot faster. But I don't go on stage with a computer and make a lot of goofy sounds.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.”
“A friend is not the one that will kill for you, but the one that will die for you”
“It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.”

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