“If the caged birds think whoever scattering grains for them that person is their deity,what should we Kurds call the person who will grantee us an independence.”

“The world is full of countries that have only come into existence in the last couple of hundred years, or even in the last few decades, while changes to borders are happening every day.”

“Sooner or later our dream will become a true, (Independence)”

“History is disappointed with us human being.”

“Refugees are going to continue to come, and the only question is what we are going to do to help them.”

“When I was a child, I never imagined one day would come when humanity would fall.”

“The memory of Mullah Mustafa Barzani has become a crucial part of the idea of what it means to be Kurdish today.”

“We are looking for a tongue that speaks with reverence for life, searching for an ecology of mind. Without it, we have no home, no place of our own within the creation. It is not only the vocabular...”

“But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.”

“Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe wh...”