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“It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.”
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“Poems have always been a place for questions for me. Not answers. And I have a lot of questions these days. One of the reasons I've felt so connected to poetry throughout the years is because it's the only art form that has breath built into it. And I need that breath now. I need that breath so much. So, yes, it is a refuge for me. Absolutely.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“I learn to love the thing that has to be erased, the thing I may not be allowed to keep, sand that runs away beneath my running feet.”
Source : Imtiaz Dharker (2009). “Leaving Fingerprints”, Bloodaxe Books Limited
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“I've never been comfortable around groups of guys when it gets into the putting-down. My past being a kind of geek - it kind of turns into an attack on the weakest of the group.”
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“[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that duality.”
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“There's a fragment that goes, "Some say the most beautiful thing in the world is a great cavalry riding down over the hill. Others say it's a vast infantry on the march. But I say the most beautiful thing is the beloved." How political can you get?”
Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003. 
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“It is less what one is that should matter, than what one is not.”
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“Had I known but yesterday what I know today, I’d have taken out your two grey eyes and put in eyes of clay. And had I known but yesterday you’d be no more my own, I’d have taken out your heart of flesh and put in one of stone.”
Source : Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel: A Novel”, p.31, Hachette UK
