Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes

I can never see fashion models, lean angular cheeks, strutting hips and blooming hair, without thinking of the skulls at the catacombs in Lima, Peru.

Naomi Shihab Nye

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• My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.

  

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• In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.

  

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• Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow.

  

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• When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

  

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• In fashion, only sexy won't go out of fashion.

  

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• Fashion is instant - after six months, it disappears, and you have to start again. That's the nature of it.

  

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• I like buying iTunes. It's instant.

  

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• I can never see fashion models, lean angular cheeks, strutting hips and blooming hair, without thinking of the skulls at the catacombs in Lima, Peru.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Fashion
  • Models
  • Cheeks