Suheir Hammad — Palestinian Poet born on October 25, 1973,

Suheir Hammad is an American poet, author and political activist. She was born in Amman, Jordan. Her parents were Palestinian refugees who immigrated along with their daughter to Brooklyn, New York City when she was five years old. Her parents later moved to Staten Island... (wikipedia)

I am so old-fashioned. I've never lived with a man. I am completely about the independence of paying my own rent.
Life is a right, not collateral or casual.
Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded.
I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.
I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or lawyer - and I didn't want to be either one.