I've read too many books to believe what I am told..

I will not dance to your war drum!.

War and tooth enameled salted lemon childhoods All colors run, none of us solid Don't look for shadow behind me I carry it within I live cycles of li….

Writing must always have intention because words have power..

Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded..

I do not know how bad a life has to break in order to kill. I have never been so hungry that I willed hunger. I have never been so angry as to wa….

Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath..

I understand now my father really thought he was doing me good. Education means a lot to Palestinians. We’ve become some of the most educated people ….

i cried when i saw those buildings collapse on themselves like a broken heart..

I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or lawyer - and I didnt want to be either ….

I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world..

I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death..

The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know this..

Life is a right, not collateral or casual..