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“all the women. in me. are tired.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, nejma

“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer.”
― Roger Scruton, The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope

“My mother was my first country, the first place I ever lived.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“... I fell in love with him even more, because I realized I was not just falling in love with Taymour but also with generations of him that connect through history, traits that had been passed down from one generation to the next. I was in love with his ancestry that stretched out for centuries.”
― Saleem Haddad