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Quotes from with Al Jadid — Naomi Shihab Nye

born 1952 United States

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7 quotes

Part of the role of the writer is to encourage other people to discover their voices.

with Al Jadid (1996)

I've always thought of song writing and poem writing as cousins.

with Al Jadid (1996)

I always took writing as being a way of thinking.

with Al Jadid (1996)

I don't understand how people can disconnect politics from daily life, because that's how politics count. We're daily life people and that's where politics become a reality to us.

with Al Jadid (1996)

Salma Khadra al-Jayusi has been instrumental in her role as a transmitter of Arabic literature.

with Al Jadid (1996)

I would strongly suggest that bicultural families such as mine teach their children both languages from the beginning if they can.

with Al Jadid (1996)

Writing...helps us identify what makes the whole geography of our lives.

with Al Jadid (1996)

Attribution

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