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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. "

G. Willow Wilson

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" It seems like whenever you write about Muslims, people assume that you're writing about the Quran, you are writing about the Prophet Muhammad. There's no sense that Muslims are capable of individualism, that they're capable of making mistakes that are somehow not connected to Islam. "

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