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Catholics should be proselytizing about a God who is love, who represents a hereafter where there's no hell, who wants you to lead a life where you can confess your sins and feel much better afterwards. Those are lovely concepts of God. ”
I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves. ”
Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But a radical minority of Muslims firmly believes that Islam is under siege, and is committed to winning the holy war it has declared against the West. ”
People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice. ”
I'm torn between wanting to connect with what I grew up with and what's available, living in Brooklyn. I don't have a grimy supermarket that decapitates frogs' heads nearby. ”
I'm really only responsible for my own actions. ”
The last thing Israel is interested in is an escalation or some military action against Iran. ”
The security of the citizens of Israel, the future of the state of Israel, this is the Israeli government's responsibility. ”
All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and very diverse, living very complex and diverse lives. That point cannot be made enough. ”
I want to be an old lady, with my cane, shouting, 'Action!' and 'Cut!' ”