Waris Shah Nun

Famous quotes containing the words shah and/or nun:

    “Varis Shah says habits don’t die even if we are cut into pieces.”
    —Varis Shah (18th cent.)

    “The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.”
    —Alice Walker (b. 1944)