She Was One Of Those People Who

The Reason I Am So Popular Is That I Give Others Back What They Need To Find In Themselves. You Need Me Not Because I Tell You What I Want You To Do But Because I Articulate And Justify What You Want To Do.

Unfortunately For Governments Like That Of Iran, When They Forbid Something, People Become More Interested.

That, Of Course, Is What Great Works Of Imagination Do For Us: They Make Us A Little Restless, Destabilize Us, Question Our Preconceived Notions And Formulas.

I See People Who Talk About America, And Then Undermine It By Not Paying Attention To Its Soul, To Its Poetry. I See Polarization, Reductionism And Superficiality.

This Is A Good Time To Ask Apologists For The Islamic Regime, Who Degrades Islam? Who Imposes Stoning, Forced Marriage Of Underage Girls And Flogging For Not Wearing The Veil? Do Such Practices Represent Iran's Ancient History And Culture, Its Ethnic And Religious Diversity? Its Centuries Of Sensual And Subversive Poetry?