I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.'
More Quotes by Ariel Dorfman
Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.
Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.
I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels.
This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.
I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.