9 Quotes & Sayings By Annie Ali

Annie Ali is an award-winning writer and professional speaker. She is the author of the novel The Only Woman in the Room, which was published in January 2012. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Long Island Newsday, Salon.com, and Marie Claire Magazine. Annie has also written for television shows such as Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: Trial by Jury, and Law & Order: SVU Read more

Her work has been anthologized in the best-selling book A Great American Woman Speaks. Annie is also a contributor to City Newspaper's nationally distributed Streetwise magazine and is an active member of the National Organization of Black Journalists. She currently lives in New York City with her husband and two children.

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I pity him who refuses to leave the minatory of his refutable Judgments and still insisting on producing his light to lit our worlds. Annie Ali
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I always believed that If I’m not carrying at least a slight poetically painful crack in my heart I’ve been cheated by nature. Annie Ali
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The world has its own ways of treating us like what we will never be, but want to be. It relinquishes its grip on our souls while lulling us with the songs of freedom and conquest of beauty. It magnifies every tiny bit of something useless over an unfathomable presence of humanity. And we all waste the whole of our lives standing in queue for gaining its attention to be abdicated as if we never existed in the eyes of our fellow men. . Annie Ali
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When my heart yearn for silence in a crowd full of cheerful people, thats not the lonliness i seek but want to feel the rustling of my abandoned desires pouring upon the broken hearts. All the noise i want to here now is the symphony of love and of healing. Annie Ali
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There is always a moment in our lives when we are destined to fall the way we ever feared of. Annie Ali
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All I care for is the inclusion of my name in the list of the believers of the supremacy of human soul over all other masterpieces He has ever produced. Annie Ali
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Sunflowers, Not Facing the Sun (A Poem) I stand tall As gracious as one could be Blooming to my best As slender as it touches my being Everyone else is facing the sun Bending towards its unfathomable galore They and I are both undoubtedly Grown on the benevolence of life’s essence The brighter side mercilessly feeding desires unbound By daunting the “courage to know” with each spin Though, I am not able to face the sun the way they do Yet, I learn from the knowledge bred within me Beyond achievement markers, but an adverse ability An opportunity to exercise my special self From the cherubic attire of my blessed soul To the unfathomable mystery the drape of this world hides That I, by not facing the sun Hunt the gems in the milieu of the human existence . Annie Ali
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I drag my world where I belong... Lost in the oubliette of conscious I hide from the murkiest of shadows Generate hope amidst fear And dewdrops amidst rain My tears don’t carry the burden of pain By taking the draperies of fate along In desire of meeting my beloved in chaos I drag my world where I belong... Annie Ali