Hussein (Abe Jensen) Quotes in Disgraced
I don’t like what’s happening. Somebody’s gotta do something about it.
You know how much easier things are for me since I changed my name?
So Rivkah and I’d gotten to the point where we were trading notes. And one day, my mother found one of the notes. Of course it was signed, Rivkah. Rivkah? my mom says. That's a Jewish name […] So I tell my mom, No, she’s not Jewish. But she knew the name was Jewish. If I ever hear that name in this house again, Amir, she said, I’ll break your bones. You will end up with a Jew over my dead body. Then she spat in my face […] Next day? Rivkah comes up to me in the hall with a note. Hi, Amir, she says. Eyes sparkling. I look at her and say, You’ve got the name of a Jew. She smiles. Yes, I’m Jewish, she says […] Then I spit in her face.
White women have no self-respect. How can someone respect themselves when they think they have to take off their clothes to make people like them?
Do we want to blow stuff up? How often did I read the Koran? […] Do I hate America?
When you step out of your parents’ house, you need to understand that it’s not a neutral world out there. Not right now. Not for you. You have to be mindful about sending a different message.
Hussein (Abe Jensen) Quotes in Disgraced
I don’t like what’s happening. Somebody’s gotta do something about it.
You know how much easier things are for me since I changed my name?
So Rivkah and I’d gotten to the point where we were trading notes. And one day, my mother found one of the notes. Of course it was signed, Rivkah. Rivkah? my mom says. That's a Jewish name […] So I tell my mom, No, she’s not Jewish. But she knew the name was Jewish. If I ever hear that name in this house again, Amir, she said, I’ll break your bones. You will end up with a Jew over my dead body. Then she spat in my face […] Next day? Rivkah comes up to me in the hall with a note. Hi, Amir, she says. Eyes sparkling. I look at her and say, You’ve got the name of a Jew. She smiles. Yes, I’m Jewish, she says […] Then I spit in her face.
White women have no self-respect. How can someone respect themselves when they think they have to take off their clothes to make people like them?
Do we want to blow stuff up? How often did I read the Koran? […] Do I hate America?
When you step out of your parents’ house, you need to understand that it’s not a neutral world out there. Not right now. Not for you. You have to be mindful about sending a different message.
