All over the world, the nativist perspective is being privileged over those who are more recent arrivals.

Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

I think sometimes feeling that you've been marginalized opens you up to the realization that, in their own lives, almost everyone experiences marginalization, a kind of foreigner sense.

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.

I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people are going to move. They always have.

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

It's important to have a non-nostalgic view and say, let's look forward, because if we don't, all we'll hear are voices telling us to go back.

Love is a rebellious bird that nobody can tame.

I'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.

We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.

We can make America what America must become.

Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.

I guess I'm just in the flow and riding the wave.

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.

Turn the clock to zero, honey, we're starting up a brand new day.