Suheir Hammad Quotes

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

  Suheir Hammad

  Inspirational, Death, Dance

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• Writing must always have intention because words have power.

  Suheir Hammad

  Writing, Power, Intention

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

  Suheir Hammad

  Rome, Imagination, Machines

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• Life is a right, not collateral or casual.

  Suheir Hammad

  Life Is, Casual, Collateral

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• I will not dance to your war drum!

  Suheir Hammad

  Guerra

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• 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 want to control a gun over a pen.
  Not really. Even as a woman, as a Palestinian, as a broken human being.
  Never this broken.

  Suheir Hammad

  Gun, Order, Broken

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

  Suheir Hammad

  Believe, Book

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

  Suheir Hammad

  Motivation, Inspiration, Do Not Fear

  "Taking The Arab Freedom Movement Global Through Song" by Stephan Said, progressive.org. February 13, 2011.

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

  Suheir Hammad

  Thinking, Feminism, World

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• 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 light and darkness

  Suheir Hammad

  Running, War, Light

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

  Suheir Hammad

  War, Breaths

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• 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 one.

  Suheir Hammad

  Doctors, Want, Path

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• Ahora entiendo que mi padre realmente pensaba que me estaba haciendo un bien. La educación significa mucho para los palestinos. Gracias a la diáspora nos hemos convertido en uno de los pueblos más cultos del mundo. Hemos tenido que serlo. Cuando no tienes tierra, tu título puede ser tu único suelo firme. Mi padre creía (cree) que ser médico me daría seguridad. ¿Cómo puedo explicar que no estoy a salvo de nada si no escribo?

  Suheir Hammad

  Padre, Escribir, Significa

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

  Suheir Hammad

  Heart, Broken, Saws

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