The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth.

We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.