Tishani Doshi Quotes

You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.

I try to forget what happiness was,
and when that don't work, I study the stars.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

The violence of beast on beast is read
As natural law, but upright man
Seeks his divinity by inflicting pain.

I'm just a red nigger who love the sea,
I had a sound colonial education,
I have Dutch, nigger, and English in me,
and either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation.