“So here you are too foreign for home too foreign for here, never enough for both” Ijeoma Umebinyuo
“Mozart wrote the requiem in 1791, the year of his death. Mozart died before he finished his requiem. The requiem was distanced for immortality not shared with its creator” Fact
“Maybe I do not belong in this world because I have created my own parallel universe where I cry, laugh, play, scream and run” unknown
“ًWhen they remember me, they will say “she killed herself” forgetting that they have killed me a long time ago when they took away my freedom, when they denied me my body and my choice, when they declared they are the word of god on earth. They were in a battle against the devil and for them I was the devil” Homa
“I wanted to love so they exiled me. Here I am a lone like a sick animal dying. I wanted to die a hero and here I am dying as a whore asking for forgiveness. I was a whore advocating freedom to a crowd of believers” Unspoken
“In the beginning I was here alone dancing on the cathedrals naked. I am the spoiled daughter of Satan who refused to burry her head in the sand, I dance in your nightmares in your comas. Stop reciting your worn out books and recite after me the book of neogenesis. Declare war on your disfigured gods.”
“My name is Homa Daraby. Now I am just a name in the book of the deceased. Another idiot who refused to kneel.”
“I pressed the gas pedal and the car screamed. The road turned but the car refused to turn with it. In this moment the I finally felt free as the car flew off the narrow mountain road. I do not know what happened next but I am still flying” Unknown
Those are captions of memos sent to me by many dear friends. Some people come to this world and feel lost in their desires, ideas, choices and are faced with an oppressive monotonic society.
Read about Homa Daraby of Iran and read about Sarah Hegazy of Egypt, although the stories are heart breaking they are a source of enlightenment, courage and they are definitely humbling.
Rage Against the Veil: The Courageous Life and Death of an Islamic Dissident
