'In 1996 Suheir Hammad whittled the distance between Brooklyn and Palestine into 82 pages For those of us who hadn't yet sewn the two together into a single sentence, Hammad took a 5,678 mile trail of exile and committed it to paper. It was an act solidified publicly with the first printing of this book, 'Born Palestinian, Born Black', written in the language of her childhood as drawn from a collective memory; set to the cadence of North American resistance.' - Introduction, p.15.