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Diriye Osman Quotes

born 1983 Somalia

Diriye Osman (born 1983) is a British-Somali author, visual artist, critic and essayist. His books include the award-winning collection of stories, Fairytales For Lost Children, and the collection of interlinked stories, The Butterfly Jungle, which Osman wrote and designed on his phone.

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I really wanted The Butterfly Jungle to have the energy of a super-fly Somali sheesha session.

We all have to struggle in order to create meaningful lives

There’s nothing more threatening to bigots than a talented, emotionally intelligent, neurodivergent gay child, which is probably why there’s so much LGBT book banning in homophobic states in America right now.

I die every night and, if I’m lucky, I’m reborn in the morning. Call it karmic pot-luck, call it spiritual cleansing, call it by any other name than what it actually is: the banal symptoms of schizoaffective disorder.

The Butterfly Jungle (2022)

Attribution

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