Mohsin Hamid Quotes - Page 8

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• Religion is not something I like to talk about publicly. One reason is the politics, but also I think spirituality is deeply personal.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, Spirituality, Reason

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• My aunt used to say, "It's between me and my god; it's got nothing to do with you." It was a good enough answer for me as a snot-nosed college kid angling for a religious debate, and I still think it's a good way of putting it.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Religious, Kids, Aunt

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We should be very skeptical of people who want to place limits on how we express ourselves.

  Mohsin Hamid

  People, Want, Limits

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If my daughter wanted to wear a headscarf and dress in a religiously conservative way, I would be heartbroken. But if she were to decide to do that and she were to live in a place where people said she couldn't do that, I would be entirely committed to her right to do so.

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  Heartbroken, Daughter, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The ethnocultural connotations of the burkini ban are very strong. It's as absurd as mandating that women have to go topless on the beach. If I were a woman, I definitely would not want to wear a burkini or a headscarf. But it's not about what I want.

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  Beach, Strong, Want

  "Love in the Time of Mass Migration". Interview With Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. March 4, 2017.

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• I think that people are going to move. They always have and that's going to continue. The question is, how are we going to deal with it?

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  Moving, Thinking, People

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• I think wars, climate change, all that stuff is going to move people. And so I wanted to say, "What if the migration apocalypse occurs and it isn't an apocalypse at all?" Maybe we will still find ways to be happy and for our children and grandchildren to thrive and the world to move on.

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  Children, War, Moving

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• What used to help us to cope with transience was stuff like, extended families all living in one place, or very strong religious beliefs, or a tribe that would outlive you. That stuff is getting weaker.

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  Religious, Strong, Stuff

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• So much of our conversation about love is possessive. "You are mine. And if you stop being mine, I will hate you." And so exploring non-possessive ideas of love and friendship is important. Which is not to say we should just break down monogamy, I'm not taking a simplistic point of view. But, in addition to these examples of possessive love that we already have so much of, let us also explore what examples of non-possessive love and affection mean.

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  Hate, Mean, Love Is

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• The paralysis that we have right now when we think about migration is partly because we can't imagine what the world would look like in the future. So I think it's important for writers and artists to try to imagine that.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, Artist, Trying

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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