Randa Abdel-Fattah

Writer

1979-06-06

Quotes by Randa Abdel-Fattah

• Life isn't like the movies. People don't change overnight. people don't go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don't suddenly give in when they've spent years taking out. No doesn't magically become a Yes.

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• I just don't know what I'd do without a brain, Simone! I say. I mean, what's a person without one?

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• Your perception is riveting, Amal, he says in a bored and sarcastic tone, dropping the note down on my desk. It's comforting to know that there are people in my class who have the maturity and intelligence to make derogatory comments about other people's external appearances.Now what am I supposed to say to that?What do you have to say for yourself?Friggin' mind reader.

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• What's the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don't change what's on the inside,were it really counts ?

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• Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.

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• Life isn't like the movies. People don't change overnight. people don't go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don't suddenly give in when they've spent years taking out. No doesn't magically become a Yes.

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• Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.

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• What's the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don't change what's on the inside,were it really counts ?

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• I just don't know what I'd do without a brain, Simone! I say. I mean, what's a person without one?

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• Your perception is riveting, Amal, he says in a bored and sarcastic tone, dropping the note down on my desk. It's comforting to know that there are people in my class who have the maturity and intelligence to make derogatory comments about other people's external appearances.Now what am I supposed to say to that?What do you have to say for yourself?Friggin' mind reader.

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• We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.

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• Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.

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• For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

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• It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.

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