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“What did exclusivity ever have to offer but a distorted, unrealistic view of the world? People who stuck only to their own kind were scared people.”

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Naomi Shihab Nye

Naomi Shihab Nye is an American poet born on March 12, 1952. Her work blends personal experiences with a wide range of cultural backgrounds, known for its concise and profound language style. more

“As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.”

World Humans Helping Feelings Poetry Language Lines Situation Imagine Perspective Honor News Tools Direct Metaphor Details Meaningful Genuine Poetry Is Imagery Headlines

Author: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.”

People Real Culture Lines Race Hero Circles Real Heroes

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“Everybody has a theme. You talk to somebody awhile, and you realize they have one particular thing that rules them. The best you can do is a variation on the theme, but that's about it.”

Motivation Can Do Realizing Particular Theme Variation

Author:Meg Wolitzer

“Being an adult child was an awkward, inevitable position. You went about your business in the world: tooling around, giving orders, being taken seriously, but there were still these two people lurking somewhere who in a split second could reduce you to nothing. In their presence, you were a big-headed baby again, crawling instead of walking.”

People World Giving Children Stills Two Bigs Order Taken Position Baby Walking Adults Inevitable Awkward Splits Crawling Lurking Adult Children

Author:Meg Wolitzer

“Guilt is one of those useless emotions I refuse to indulge.”

Emotion Guilt Refuse Useless Indulge

Author:Rosemary Daniell

“A New York friend said that visiting the South reminded her of nothing more than being in high school again.”

Said School New York High School South Visiting

Author:Rosemary Daniell

“Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.”

Wells Guilt Glorious

Author:Alice McDermott

“The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.”

Writing Stories

Author:Alice McDermott

“When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some order, and writing fiction is the only way I've found that seems to begin to do that.”

Way Needs Feels Writing I Can Seems Order Found Fiction Make Sense Writing Fiction

Author:Alice McDermott

“I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style.”

Writing Hate Style Fronts Computer I Hate Bullets Tedious Dodging Bullets

Author:Kathy Griffin

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