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

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Writing must always have intention because words have power.
Suheir Hammad

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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

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I will not dance to your war drum!
Suheir Hammad

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

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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

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

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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 in the world through our diaspora. We’ve had to be. When you ain’t got land, your degree may be your only solid ground. May father felt (feels) that being a doctor would give me security. How can I explain that I’m not safe from anything if I don’t write?
Suheir Hammad

Quote Topics by Suheir Hammad: War Writing Broken Gun Path Order Father Collateral Light Life Is Breaths Imagination World Intention Do Not Fear Inspiration Death Saws Believe Doctors Want Mean Casual Running Rome Feminism Machines Thinking Power Motivation
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Life is a right, not collateral or casual.
Suheir Hammad

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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

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

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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

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

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