I always ask myself what kind of terrible things I could commit. This is a question for any human being. - Adania Shibli

I always find a place with words to create parallel possibilities where dehumanization thrives. However, in real life, you need to neutralize all your emotions and become numb, but then writing neutralizes that neutralization. Other people don’t have words for their rescue. But something else, a walk, a pavement, a tree, a stone, endless minor objects that turn into the place where they practice their humanity, a place where oppression cannot reach or destroy.

Differences between people are used to commit injustice—that was an early lesson about racism.

People may gain from literature what they cannot get from their own lives. It’s not escapism but rather a kind of openness.