"My father was very disappointed by war and……" — Naomi Shihab Nye
"My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister."
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49 Quotes by Naomi Shihab Nye
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Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.
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I have always loved the gaps, the spaces between things, as much as the things. I love staring, pondering, mulling,…
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Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper…
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Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
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Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.
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Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your…
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Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the…
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Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on…
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You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we…
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I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body...
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Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.
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For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you…
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