Riad Sattouf quotes

I waited so long to tell this story partly because when I started to make comics I didn't want to be the guy of Arab origin who makes comics about Arab people...I didn't want to be the official Arab comics artist. So I made a lot of comics in France which weren't related to this part of me. I made a movie. But even during all that other work, I was thinking I have this good story, how could I tell it? (Riad Sattouf)
I tried not to generalize. But a lot of guys are like my father. He came from a poor family - the gap between where he started and where he ended up as a doctor was too big, and he was thinking he had a destiny! He was a little bit crazy. And he was so proud of this. He also hated Israel. It was a huge humiliation for him and his friends - the defeats by Israel. It was like a personal defeat. So he hated the United States, of course; he hated Europe because they had good relations with Israel. It was, like, biblical. As if Europe and the United States prefer the Jew to the Arab. And he wanted to say, "But I am as intelligent as them.” It was very strange. View quote
Riad Sattouf