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Quotes from This Is Not Who We Are: Arab-Americans in a Post-9/11 World — Naomi Shihab Nye

born 1952 United States

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I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!

This Is Not Who We Are: Arab-Americans in a Post-9/11 World (2002)

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.

This Is Not Who We Are: Arab-Americans in a Post-9/11 World (2002)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Naomi Shihab Nye (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.