Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.

We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.

the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

I know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her.

Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood.

Always" is a good word to believe in.

I feel sad for him. Sad for the boy bound to the killer. I am sad for the youth betrayed by their leaders for symbols and flags and war and power.

Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand.

Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another?

I loved her in spite of myself. I loved her immeasurably.Infinitely. And I feared that love as much as I feared my own fury at theworld.

How fate is stubborn and holds to habit.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

I'm a proud strict mom and, you know, I'm really proud of the two daughters I've raised. And I'm especially proud of my relationship with them. We're very close. I think we're good friends.

I would rather feel the hurt inside, yes I would darling, than know the emptiness that your heart must hide.

We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.

It is the greatest game that I've ever been around. It'll continue to get better and be the greatest.

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

As marvelous as the stars is the mind of the person who studies them.

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.