Marc Alan Barnette Quotes & Sayings

Culture is a powerful force that influences our perceptions, our mindsets and even our domestic and foreign policies. The rich, messy complexity of 1,400 years of Islamic civilization and 1.6 billion Muslims has been reduced to token stereotypes. We are either avatars of destruction or the good Muslim who helps the national security narrative. But the overwhelming majority of us live in the giant middle - the grey zone - where impressions exist in more colors than just black and white." * — Rabia Chaudry

And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God. — Karen Armstrong

How do I soothe his ache when mine was a big gaping hole large enough for both of us to fit in? — Abbi Glines

I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one. — Winston Churchill

Technically, the killing itself is due either to the sun or to pure idleness. — Kamel Daoud