Anouar Majid Quotes

"Such questions [about illegal immigration as 'a major threat to the state'], like the topics of slavery and Native Americans, are often met with a 'here we go again' attitude, an impatience with bringing up issues considered to be long gone (perhaps even resolved) and no longer applicable in America's here and now... Mexican and Hispanic cultures are part of the fabric of Americanness; to pretend otherwise is to invite more confusion and to fuel the xenophobic tendencies that have given strength to nativists and sanctioned violence.

One day you will understand why our prophet said that heaven is under the feet of mothers. Because they suffer so much in delivering humanity into existence.

[...], the soul of man lives in his language.

[...] It is not humanity that will tear the land asunder, but a certain inhumanity born from ingratitude and the explosion of souls_ in the usual name of progress.

[...] When you befriend old men you realize how innocent the human race is.

That is the present: an emanation of memory bouncing on the illusion of the future