“Palestinians are not victims in need of aid, they are an occupied & oppressed people in need of freedom.” Quote by Remi Kanazi
“Welcome to Israel, where the beaches are great, the fruit is succulent, the landscape is mesmerizing, and all of it is stolen.” FruitIsraelWelcomeLandscapeBeachStolenMesmerizingSucculents Author:Remi Kanazi
“Welcome to Israel, where chanting “Death to Arabs” is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace.” ChildrenRunningDeathPeaceDemocracyIsraelEqualityWelcomeFuneralFiringChanting Author:Remi Kanazi
“We should be less concerned about hurting the feelings of the oppressors and more concerned about standing in solidarity with the oppressed.” ShouldFeelingsHurtConcernedStandingSolidarityOppressedOppressorsHurt Feelings Author:Remi Kanazi
“Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.” NeedsArtUseFormPoetryCultureLanguageLinesColorPaintingExpressionAbstractPoeticAbstract ArtWording Author:Etel Adnan
“I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and makes writing more natural, as in how it is lived in the person. We don’t separate thinking from feeling in real life, so why should we separate it in writing?” ThinkingShouldWritingPersonsRealPhilosophyFeelingsMovingNaturalFieldsReal LifeContemporaryPoetry Is Author:Etel Adnan
“We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from becoming picky eaters. We don't buy junk food and give them options of fresh fruit, yogurt, raw almonds, or dried whole grain cereals for snack time.” GivingWholeKidsAgeBecomingTasteFruitDietsGrainFlavorJunkSnacksCerealJunk FoodPalatePickyYogurtAlmondsWhole Grains Author:Cat Cora
“There is in Ammiel Alcalay’s work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different.” WorldDifferentCourageousTenderness Author:Etel Adnan
“To read a lot of trash mixing the blood of war with business’s stench. To root out any happiness. To go out, and down, and on the road. To hesitate; to go on, and ahead, and back, and up the stairs, and in one’s room. On the way, to notice that the mountain is still there. To lie and sleep, deeply, heavily. To reproduce night’s sleep. To wake up, look through the window at green water, from the Bay to the mountain, and return to one’s self. To remember that war is devastating Irak. To feel pain.” WayFeelsLooksStillsWarSelfPainRememberLyingNightWaterSleepRoomsBloodGoes OnReturnMountainRootsWindowWake UpDown AndGreenTrashStairsMixing Author:Etel Adnan