Rafeef Ziadah

“wish I could just run barefoot in every refugee campand hold every child,cover their earsso they wouldn’t have to hear the sound of bombingfor the rest of their life the way I do..”

“I am an Arab woman of color Beware … Beware my anger !”

“All my grandfather ever wanted to dowas wake up at dawn and watch my grandmother kneel and prayin a village hidden between Jaffa and Haifamy mother was born under an olive treeon a soil they say is no longer minebut I will cross their barriers, their check pointstheir damn apartheid walls and return to my homelandI am an Arab woman of color and we come in all shades of anger”