I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body.
Interpretation
This quote expresses solidarity and acceptance for all individuals, regardless of their physical differences.
Naomi Shihab Nye emphasizes the importance of embracing diversity in human bodies. By acknowledging and supporting all people, she advocates for inclusivity and understanding among individuals, which fosters compassion and a sense of community in an increasingly divided world.
In practice
This quote can be used in a diversity training session to emphasize acceptance.
It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.
I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like? We don't even know
I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.
A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.
I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.
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.
I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'
I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one's waggon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life.
We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.
I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.
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