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View Plans“ ”The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the new emerging Indian middle class – they needed a princess. They had the wrong woman. I had this light shining on me at the time, and I knew that I had the stage to say something about what was happening in my country. What is exciting about what I have done since is that writing has become a weapon, some kind of ammunition.
About Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian writer and social activist
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Additional quotes by Arundhati Roy
"If you are happy in a dream, Ammu, does that count? Estha asked. "Does what count?" "The happiness does it count?". She knew exactly what he meant, her son with his spoiled puff. Because the truth is, that only what counts, counts....."If you eat fish in a dream, does it count?" Does it mean you've eaten fish?"
وعندما نحاول ان نصغي فإن كل مانسمعه هو الهمس. ونحن لانستطيع فهم الهمس،لآن عقولنا اجتيحت بحرب.
حرب ربحناها وخسرناها.حرب هي الأسوأ على الإطلاق بين كل الحروب.حرب استولت على أحلامنا،وحلمت بها من جديد.
حرب جعلتنا نعبد غزاتنا ونكره أنفسنا
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness.