Shelina Zahra Janmohamed quotes
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“An Islamic writer recalls her joy in the clothes she wore as a young girl at a wedding: They were always in beautiful bright colors: crimson, pink, turquoise, purple, and embroidered with sparkling crystals, sequins and beads. ... The older girls and women would wear glamorous heavily-beaded silk blouses and long, princess-like skirts. I wanted to wear those fairy-tale clothes too. I longed even more to wear a sari which the women wore so elegantly and which flattered their curves.”
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“Aren't the stars beautiful? Thousands of them twinkling so far from us, yet so near. Who knows what it's like in the universe where they are? ... I can't breathe when I look at them. I bet somewhere out there we could understand what life is really about, and find a way to bring a bit more meaning into this world.”
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“Poetry is designed to inspire love, and islam is about falling in love with the creator of the universe.”
-- Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
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“Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.”
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Source : A. J. Liebling (2016). “Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris”, p.59, North Point Press
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Source : "American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.
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“Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff.”
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