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" The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent. "
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" Leaving your country at a tender age really rearranges the way you perceive the world. So I feel marginally attached to many places rather than deeply attached to any one place. "
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" It took me a long time to square with the fact that none of my experiences are typical - I'm not a typical American, but I'm also not a typical Muslim. "
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" I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written. "
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" I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?' "
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" We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.' "
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" So many people are of mixed heritage; everyone is from somewhere else. "
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" The great thing about Cairo is the vast majority of women wear some kind of head scarf, but they are also very fashion-conscious. They love bright colors. "
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" I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators. "
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" There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics. "
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" Because the traditional mode of dress for Muslim women is so distinct - the headcovering, which is not there for guys - women carry a greater burden of representation than Muslim men do in non-Muslim societies. "
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" 'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble. "
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" Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism. "
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" I don't want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process. "
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" In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I'm the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume. "
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" We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small - the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you. "
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" Americans look at the Middle East as a source of trauma because of 9/11. At the same time, I could see the fear going on in the Middle East as well - which would be the next country to be invaded or sanctioned? Being around those tensions was traumatic for me. "
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" When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into. "
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" For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons. "
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" To me, a staircase looks like a series of dark and light horizontal stripes, which is exactly how you'd draw a staircase. So I know how the image is going to look on the page. "
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" I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots. "
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" I have younger friends who are in this pinch where they feel they've been counted out before they've had a chance to prove themselves. They've inherited a lot of debt - not just student debt but environmental debt, political debt. They really feel squeezed. "
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" I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things. "
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" I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish. "
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" It's very difficult to balance different audiences and talk to each one without selling the others short. There is no universal literature - or, if there is, I don't know how to write it. "
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" Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think. "
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" I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions. "
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" If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy. "
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" Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you. "
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" There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture. "
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" In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim. "
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