All over the world, the nativist perspective is being privileged over those who are more recent arrivals.

Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.

You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.

I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of people on that common ground.

We need to start imagining the future or it will get imagined for us, and the ways that it has been imagined thus far don't seem very attractive.

The mobile phone is very dangerous. If you're walking and looking at your phone, you're not walking - you're surfing the internet.

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.