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.
Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.
We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals.
I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.
Western liberal humanism is not something that comes naturally to us: like an appreciation of art or poetry, it has to be cultivated. Humanism is itself a religion without God-not all religions, of course, are theistic. Our ethical secular ideal has it's own disciplines of mind and heart and gives people the means of finding faith in the ultimate meaning of human life that were once provided by the more conventional religions.
I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean.
Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the orbits of the stars, and yet they neglect to marvel at themselves. Variant: Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.
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