“I am convinced that what we are seeing is something seen before: these angry flailings are dangerous and frightening, but they are death throes, not signs of rebirth.” -South African writer Tony Eprile on the parallels between Trump’s rise to power and the end of apartheid in South Africa
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“The Earth–this atom lost in the universe–is much too small to hold all this hate and racism.” – Osama Alomar
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“As islanders, we know how attentive we have to be to signs when a cyclone approaches.” -Shenaz Patel
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“Nine: Did they vote for him because he’s so loud and people notice the loudest?”
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“We’re a nation of dreamers, all of us.” -Adriana Ramirez, winner of the 2015 PEN/Fusion Emerging Writer’s Prize.
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“Coming to middle America as a woman who had spent eleven years on the East Coast of America but also fifteen years living in Pakistan, the divides were more obvious to me.” -Bina Shah, Pakistani writer
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