For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late.
Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.
Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.
We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.
On this earth there is that which deserves life.