Sometimes thereโs no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens.
Naomi Shihab NyeIt was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.
Naomi Shihab NyeAnyone who says, โHereโs my address, write me a poem,โ deserves something in reply. So Iโll tell you a secret instead: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them.
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