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"I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves."
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"You need to find your gift, something that differs you from others."
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"You do not need to proof your significance."
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"If a man realizes who he is, he cannot be hurt, humiliated or offended."
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"Christians, who do not know the purpose of their salvation, are actually just mediocre people."
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"Knowledge is self-discovery."
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"Due to the monstrous activity of a handful of extremists, the majority of the human society has been conditioned to believe that the term 'musalman' is somehow synonymous with terrorism. But the reality is, the term 'musalman' refers to someone with 'musallam iman,' that means, a pure conscience. Thus any individual whose conscience is pure and clear, is a musalman or muslim, regardless of socio-religious background. Likewise, any human being who loves his or her neighbor is a Christian. Hence, scriptures can't define your religion, only your actions with other people do."
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"You will be someone else if you did not answer the question "Who am I."
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"Homosexuals are not made, they are born."
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"There is one clear urgency in your life that you must never neglect, and that is - you must be yourself."
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"Your self-worth is totally different from your net-worth."
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"I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves."
Identity
"I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change."
Change
"But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet."
Old
"I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity."
Work
"The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry."
Poetry
"My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote."
Sense
"Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice."
Poetry
"I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity."
Time
"I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet."
Family
"Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home."
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