Shihab Nye

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    “I support all people on earth
    who have bodies like and unlike my body,
    skins and moles and old scars,
    secret and public hair,
    crooked toes. I support
    those who have done nothing large.”
    —Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952)

    “I support all people on earth
    who have bodies like and unlike my body,
    skins and moles and old scars,
    secret and public hair,
    crooked toes. I support
    those who have done nothing large.”
    —Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952)

    “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 (b. 1952)