Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics.

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• Shirin Neshat:

  I believe we don't need to widen the divide between the West and Islam. Rather, we need to build di

• Shirin Neshat:

  The first years of my life in the U.S. were very difficult.

• Shirin Neshat:

  Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In

• Shirin Neshat:

  My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very inte

• Shirin Neshat:

  I'm really interested in social justice, and if an artist has a certain power of being heard and vo

• Shirin Neshat:

  I think of myself, an Iranian/American artist, and wonder what would I want if I'm ever imprisoned

• Ellen Hopkins:

  Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in

• Ellen Hopkins:

  People inspire me. Everyone is such an individual and has unique stories. I'm a voyeur. I eavesdrop

• Ellen Hopkins:

  Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the ess

• Ellen Hopkins:

  Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.