All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell.
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
When I say, I don't care what white people think, I mean that.
Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.
If you know two languages, the level of your intelligence is multiplied a hundredfold in other people's eyes.
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.
So long as our land is occupied it is the right of the Palestinian people and their factions to combine resistance and political activities. Resistance and its arms are directed against the occupation while political activity is part of re-arranging the Palestinian home.
Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.
Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.
The first step. . . shall be to lose the way.