When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person.
Naomi Shihab NyeI Still Have Everything You Gave Me It is dusty on the edges. It is slightly rotten. I guard it without thinking. I focus on it once a year when I shake it out in the wind. I do not ache. I would not trade.
Naomi Shihab NyeI think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.
Naomi Shihab Nye... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.
Naomi Shihab NyeMy 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.
Naomi Shihab Nye