Farouk Zalatimo

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.

The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.

Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
― Arundhati Roy, War Talk

“If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.”
― Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

“الذين نحبهم لا يموتون وان سار الناس جميعا بجنازات حقيقيه لهم .. هم فقط يصمتون للأبد”
― يامن النوباني, ذاكرة اللوز

“لأنه لا يُسمح لي بدخول القدس
قلت لإمرأة تقطن هناك: كوني عيناي”
― يامن النوباني, ذاكرة اللوز