We have to choices in this world; we either try to survive or to give up.

Yeah, don't you take a break?" "I don't have time for breaks." "That's the whole point of a break. When you've got no time, you need a break.

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.

Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.

there is more to this hijab than the whole modesty thing. These girls are strangers to me but I know that we all felt an amazing connection, a sense that this cloth binds us in some kind of universal sisterhood.

In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.