I remember being mad about having pink and red shoes. I gew up envying other girls' pink and red shoes.
I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.
I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in.
Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while they're evaporating.
And you became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction.
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.
If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.
But what of black women?. . . I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
One of the interesting things about skateboarding and graffiti is that skateboarding exists in the documentation of an act.
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.
If we continue to devalue ourselves we cannot realistically expect respect from others.