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Hawa Abdi Quotes

When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: somali
Birth: May 17, 1947

Topics

Mother Eyes Pain Child Doctor Help

When you have kids, it can be hard sometimes because you've got to find creative ways to spend time with each other. So with 'Lights Down Low,' I wanted to just write about all the things that we do to try to keep the love alive in creative ways, because you can't always go out on a date... but you can make a date at home.

Jessie James Decker

Love Home Time Creative You Down

I cannot reconcile monitoring certain people for no reason other than their religion with the freedom of religion we have here in America.

Freedom Religion People America Here

I'm not a good mother at all.

Good Mother Good Mother

As well as being blind, Ma turned out to have the same mental illness that her mother had had. Between 1986 and 1990, she suffered six schizophrenic bouts, each requiring her to be institutionalised for up to three months.

Mother Blind Three Mental Illness Up

My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote.

Girl Myself Book Silly Career Wrote

Well the first thing I'd say is that I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to do to show my remorse other than to say that I'm remorseful.

Say First Remorse Well Show Sure

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Friendship Happiness Self Place True

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

Father Personality Strong Intelligent

I think art breaks down otherness.

Art Think Down Breaks I Think

But I think traveling around and going around the world and making arrangements for moving around is the most difficult thing, 'cuz you don't know what's going to happen.

Moving World Think You Know Happen

I feel like I have the best job in the world.

Best Job World Feel I Feel Like

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

Man War You Know Young Possible

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