Don’t Say Writing Has No Meaning

From Moorish Girl:

And I’ll always be jealous of how he [my father] once spent an airplane ride shooting the shit with Salman Rushdie (during his fatwa years). When he got off, a police squad was waiting to escort Rushdie off the plane. My baba came home that night and told me, “Randood, don’t believe when the donkeys say writing has no meaning. A row of police men in riot gear…for a writer! No meaning, my ass.”

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