I couldn't stop bawling, watching the towers come down. it was a terrible thing to happen. And a terrible thing to realize that I don't sit though the nigh crying when such horrors happen all the time.

Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don’t look at its manifestation.

Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.

Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.

In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

It's like one of those scenes from a feel-good Hollywood movie. Where everybody is happy and nobody's hair fizzes in the wind. Where it doesn't rain, your shoes stay comfortable all day, and everybody's jokes are funny.

Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.