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.
I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.
Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.
Take her away; for she hath lived too long, _x000D_ _x000D_ To fill the world with vicious qualities.
It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his custom to call women. The individual disappeared, the features were obliterated, whether young or senile, beautiful or ugly - those were mere unimportant variations. Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite.
So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.
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