Half the time when brothers wrestle, it's just an excuse to hug each other.
I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.
She wondered then if she had ever been on the right track. She had been reticent all her life, because it turned out that her opinions were different from what others expected. 'That proves either that I am an exceptional idiot, or the reverse.
To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.
Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.
Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.
That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.
One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely aware of the existence of the other. The one studies the human community, almost as if it were a separate entity, and calls its findings sociology, economics and history. The other studies the plant and animal community and comfortably relegates the hodge-podge of politics to the liberal arts. The inevitable fusion of these two lines of thought will, perhaps, constitute the outstanding advance of this century.
If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.
I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
Great love endures time, heartache, and distance. And even when all seems lost, true love lives on.