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Sulaiman Addonia
6 quotes
“It was like taking a hammer to the home I had built in the Arabic language word by word, over many years in Sudan and Saudi Arabia. My increasing strength in English correlated negatively with my Arabic. The more I felt at home in English, the less Arabic felt like one. So much so that learning a new language was to acquire a new wound. Multilingualism meant multi-wounding.”
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“I felt accepted by the English language even as British people had trouble acknowledging my existence...”
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“Here, I wasn't a refugee, or an asylum seeker, or an immigrant, or a scar on the consciences of Europeans, or an open wound in the chest of my mother. Here, I was just a writer. And a human being.”
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“I didn't choose for my job to be a secret, Nasnet said. It's ironic, though. Society makes it so and then they try to oust you and ostracize you for the secret they have demanded and imposed in the first place.”
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“All women are fighters... It is just that we fight different wars. My mother carrying a gun doesn't make her stronger than your mother, who's been fighting for you since your father left.”
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“First we root our sensibility in the camp, and with each seed sown a bit of that fear is stripped off.”
Sulaiman Addonia (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source