6 Quotes & Sayings By Suheir Hammad

Suheir Hammad is a writer, social activist, and founder of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding. She has been featured on numerous television programs around the world including "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", "Al Jazeera", CNN, Al Arabiya, Samaa TV, Al Jazeera English, and others. She is also a contributor to The Huffington Post blog. Her articles have appeared in many publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Guardian UK, The Nation, Newsweek, Mother Jones, The Nation Magazine, Common Ground Newsmagazine, Foreign Policy Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Alternet.org and other publications.

Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath.
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Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath. Suheir Hammad
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A woman will tell youevery home she has ever inhabitedhas been broken intostarting with her body Suheir Hammad
... in the world, it will be women, mostly colored...
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... in the world, it will be women, mostly colored and poor. women will have to bury children, and support themselves through grief. Suheir Hammad
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Occupation, curfew, settlements, closed military zone, administrative detention, siege, preventive strike, terrorist infrastructure, transfer. Their WAR destroys language. Speaks genocide with the words of a quiet technician. Occupation means that you cannot trust the OPEN SKY, or any open street near to the gates of snipers tower. It means that you cannot trust the future or have faith that the past will always be there. Occupation means you live out your live under military rule, and the constant threat of death, a quick death from a snipers bullet or a rocket attack from an M16.A crushing, suffocating death, a slow bleeding death in an ambulance stopped for hours at a checkpoint. A dark death, at a torture table in an Israeli prison: just a random arbitrary death. A cold calculated death: from a curable disease. A thousand small deaths while you watch your family dying around you. Occupation means that every day you die, and the world watches in silence. As if your death was nothing, as if you were a stone falling in the earth, water falling over water. And if you face all of this death and indifference and keep your humanity, and your love and your dignity and YOU refuse to surrender to their terror, then you know something of the courage that is Palestine. Suheir Hammad
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I am so old-fashioned. I've never lived with a man. I am completely about the independence of paying my own rent. Suheir Hammad