--- title: "2 Dance Heartbeat Quotes By Suheir Hammad" description: "2 Dance Heartbeat quotes by Suheir Hammad. Plus more from Suheir Hammad and more Dance Heartbeat sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ab/suheir-hammad-25188_drum_what-i-will-by-suheir-hammad-i-will-not_69946.png" --- > [“What I Will by Suheir Hammad I will not dance to your war drum. I will not lend my soul nor my bones to your war drum. I will not dance to your beating. I know that beat. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suheir-hammad/what-i-will-by-suheir-hammad-i-will-not-dance-to-your-war-drum-i-will/) [Suheir Hammad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suheir-hammad/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ab/suheir-hammad-25188_drum_what-i-will-by-suheir-hammad-i-will-not_69946.png) > [I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suheir-hammad/i-will-dance-and-resist-and-dance-and-persist-and-dance-this/) [Suheir Hammad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suheir-hammad/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a68/suheir-hammad-25188_dance_i-will-dance-and-resist-and-dance-and-pe_2198533.png) ## More by Suheir Hammad > [Life is a right, not collateral or casual.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suheir-hammad/life-is-a-right-not-collateral-or-casual/) [Suheir Hammad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suheir-hammad/) > [“What I Will by Suheir Hammad I will not dance to your war drum. I will not lend my soul nor my bones to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suheir-hammad/what-i-will-by-suheir-hammad-i-will-not-dance-to-your-war-drum-i-will/) [Suheir Hammad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suheir-hammad/) > [War and tooth enameled salted lemon childhoods All colors run, none of us solid Don't look for shadow behind me I carry it within…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suheir-hammad/war-and-tooth-enameled-salted-lemon-childhoods-all-colors-run-none-of/) [Suheir Hammad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suheir-hammad/) > [“a woman will tell you every home she has ever inhabited has been broken into starting with her body”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suheir-hammad/a-woman-will-tell-you-every-home-she-has-ever-inhabited-has-been/) [Suheir Hammad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suheir-hammad/) > [I will not dance to your war drum!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suheir-hammad/i-will-not-dance-to-your-war-drum/) [Suheir Hammad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suheir-hammad/) > [I've read too many books to believe what I am told.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suheir-hammad/i-ve-read-too-many-books-to-believe-what-i-am-told/) [Suheir Hammad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suheir-hammad/) > [“darkest before the dawn. it will get darker. be light.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suheir-hammad/darkest-before-the-dawn-it-will-get-darker-be-light/) [Suheir Hammad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suheir-hammad/) > [“There is life here. Anyone reading this is breathing, maybe hurting, but breathing for sure. And if there is any light to come, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suheir-hammad/there-is-life-here-anyone-reading-this-is-breathing-maybe-hurting-but/) [Suheir Hammad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suheir-hammad/) > [I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suheir-hammad/i-think-of-feminism-as-a-socially-just-and-imaginative-world/) [Suheir Hammad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suheir-hammad/) > [I am so old-fashioned. I've never lived with a man. I am completely about the independence of paying my own rent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suheir-hammad/i-am-so-old-fashioned-i-ve-never-lived-with-a-man-i-am-completely/) [Suheir Hammad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suheir-hammad/) > [“... in the world, it will be women, mostly colored and poor. women will have to bury children, and support themselves through grief.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suheir-hammad/in-the-world-it-will-be-women-mostly-colored-and-poor-women-will-have/) [Suheir Hammad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suheir-hammad/) > [Writing must always have intention because words have power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suheir-hammad/writing-must-always-have-intention-because-words-have-power/) [Suheir Hammad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suheir-hammad/) > [I understand now my father really thought he was doing me good. Education means a lot to Palestinians. We’ve become some of the most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suheir-hammad/i-understand-now-my-father-really-thought-he-was-doing-me-good/) [Suheir Hammad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suheir-hammad/) > [I do not know how bad a life has to break in order to kill. I have never been so hungry that I willed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suheir-hammad/i-do-not-know-how-bad-a-life-has-to-break-in-order-to-kill-i-have/) [Suheir Hammad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suheir-hammad/) > [The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know this.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suheir-hammad/the-machine-will-grind-you-down-but-the-machine-is-not-bigger-than/) [Suheir Hammad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suheir-hammad/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dance-heartbeat/suheir-hammad/#itemlist", "name": "2 Dance Heartbeat Quotes By Suheir Hammad", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“What I Will by Suheir Hammad I will not dance to your war drum. I will not lend my soul nor my bones to your war drum. I will not dance to your beating. I know that beat. It is lifeless. I know intimately that skin you are hitting. It was alive once hunted stolen stretched. I will not dance to your drummed up war. I will not pop spin break for you. I will not hate for you or even hate you. I will not kill for you. Especially I will not die for you. 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