24 Quotes by Suheir Hammad

Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath.

a woman will tell youevery home she has ever inhabitedhas been broken intostarting with her body

... in the world, it will be women, mostly colored and poor. women will have to bury children, and support themselves through grief.

i cried when i saw thosebuildings collapse on themselves like a broken heart.

one more person ask me if i knew the hijackers.one more motherfucker ask me what navy my brother is in.one more person assume no arabs or muslims were killed. one more personassume they know me, or that i represent a people.or that a people represent an evil. or that evil is as simple as aflag and words on a page.

I am so old-fashioned. I've never lived with a man. I am completely about the independence of paying my own rent.

Life is a right, not collateral or casual.

I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.

i cried when i saw those buildings collapse on themselves like a broken heart.