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Quotes from Interview — Adania Shibli

born 1974 Palestine

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8 quotes

Differences between people are used to commit injustice—that was an early lesson about racism.

Interview (2020)

Femininity to me is about the opposition to power and order in the sadistic fashion.

Interview (2017)

It is within such structures that I feel a grand narrative can exist, like a dictatorship—solid, like the worst tyrant.

Interview (2020)

I’m not striving for abstraction, but precision—where the words that want to be in the text can find their place in it.

Interview (2020)

I’m fascinated by what borders try to prevent, and why. And sometimes by how their meaning and the perception of them shifts from one situation to another.

Interview (2020)

People may gain from literature what they cannot get from their own lives. It’s not escapism but rather a kind of openness.

Interview (2020)

I always ask myself what kind of terrible things I could commit. This is a question for any human being.

Interview (2020)

There was a certain period of time a person could either be inside or outside of Palestine. But now our being is always mingled with so many places at the same time.

Interview (2020)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Adania Shibli (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.