And even if someone leaves you, your memories of them, good or bad, will stay, and that’s what matters most in this life. Yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Either you’re a blessing or a lesson.” – Frank Ocean, 52. “We met for a reason. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds.”  – Henry Rollins, 23. People come. You spoke through the impossible and you teach us once more how a story, through a faithful, stubborn kind of continuation, can be like a collective strength. She expands the scope of “Partition” to include the violence of WWII, the Islamophobia of post-9/11 America and Trump, Beyoncé, the “partitioning” of the apartment she grew up in. “Faced with inevitable change, the choice was mine. Tom Peters, 2. 53. "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." “People come and go in our lives. "How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it." If you don’t do it, I remember. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.” – Mary Schmich, 28. “People come into your life and go, but you will always have to live with yourself. Along with poets Jamila Woods, Nate Marshall, Aaron Samuels, Franny Choi, and Danez Smith, Asghar is a member of Dark Noise, a multiracial poetry collective whose work addresses shared themes of intergenerational trauma, racial injustice, and queer identity. If there were a season for gratitude, they'd show it more. "I will prepare and some day my chance will come." Their heads too gloriously full of early July. revealed to be a white man writing under a Chinese woman’s name. We continue in our bookmarks series with works that sing, dissolve boundaries, and gather voices together. The “partition” of If They Come For Us memorializes the violence of borders by refusing the limits of the word partition itself. Genuine people are an endangered species. People really do come and go. 54. Other friends may come and go, but I am always here for me.” – Louise Hay, 24. And just because one person leaves doesn’t mean you should forget about everyone else who’s still standing by your side. And though I knew it was someone’s son, I unburied the rooster in the dark and kick-started a fire and roasted it on a spit, my fingers lamping with grease. “Oil” serves as the flimsy motivation for the invasion of Iraq, and also a stand-in for everything Asghar has lost as an orphan and as a brown girl during the War on Terror. Either you need to change your life, or you’re the one that’ll change theirs.” – Louis and Champagne, 11. In Schizophrene, Kapil tackles the problem of representation by writing towards lacunae. Just try not to take it personally.” – Unknown, 18. Love who you love. Go to table of contents You could e-stay, you know.They would not be sorry to have you e-stay. Click to tweet. I learned that I’m here, and I’m important. Instead, focus on what to do next. “People come and go, that’s why I watch my back and trust only a few.” – Anonymous, 32. 30 Jocko Willink Quotes on Becoming a Better Leader in Life And Work, 55 Popular Bodybuilding Quotes from Famous Bodybuilders, How To Effectively Optimize Space In Small Homes Or Offices, Mind And Body: Why Mental And Physical Health Are More Connected Than You Might Think. As one day became another and others disappeared, gypsies, mentally retarded, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, criminals, anti-socials and emigrants, I remained silent because I was not one of them. Now my body swells at the window with casual longing. Be you, do your own thing and work hard. Some are there to test you… Some will use you… Some will teach you, and some will bring out the best in you.” – Anonymous, 41. Like Dark Noise and Zhang, Mehri insists on a poetics that pushes back at the limiting prescriptions of a white capitalist publishing machine: “We have the right to our own specificity.”, Asghar, too, asserts that right. "Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting." Bruce Lee. Thomas A. Edison, 16. Donald Trump, 4. So, I’m always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come. You must stretch, reach, grow into your goodness. In her debut poetry collection, If They Come For Us, Fatimah Asghar has a poem titled “Oil” that is really about blood, and that recognizes the significance of its fluidity. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.” – Unknown, 12. an aunt teaches me how to tell “I don’t give up. Poet, screenwriter, educator, and performer Fatimah Asghar is a Pakistani, Kashmiri, Muslim American writer. “Because too many times in life there’s just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. Blood versus oil, the girl she knows herself to be versus the political self, victimized by the state. Activities You Should And Shouldn’t Do During A Pandemic, 21 Best Weekend Jobs That Pay Well To Make Extra Money, Stickermania: 114 Companies and Organizations That Will Mail Free Stickers to You, Instagram Addicts: Best Instagram Captions & Quotes for Your Selfies, 64 Happy Wedding Anniversary Wishes & Quotes from Husband to Wife. Life is short. “Friends may come and go. But Asghar recognizes the limits and violence of language. Poem by Khristian E. Kay - Poem Hunter. “We don’t meet people by accident.

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