Debra Samson > Quotes

“People assign value to the strangest things.  I do it all the time.  I keep the Petoskey stone in my pocket that Carolyn gave to me 20 years ago.  Eliot gave me a Buddhist prayer wheel and Carol gave me a necklace with a Brazilian pendant of a hand twisted into a thumb-up good luck sign.”
― Debra Samson, Between

“I look around at the people who have a special spark, or aren’t all chained up in a bad self-image, or who understand their own personal power, and every time I see that kind of person I know why: it’s the gift of the good dad. ”
― Debra Samson, Between

“I wonder how they’ll do without me.  They’ll do fine.  Holes are made, holes are filled—they’re”
― Debra Samson, Between

“When I was doing my undergraduate African studies, I learned of a belief among the Yoruba of West Africa.  They believed that when you were thinking of someone, that person was really visiting with you, “staying” with you right where you were.  In your letter you said you regretted not being here to be among us.  I guess in my rather clumsy way, I want you to know that you are here with us,”
― Debra Samson, Between

“I was so glad that I went to that service.  It gave me the chance to put an end mark on it, and reaffirmed my belief that, in some small way, each of us can make a difference when it comes to pushing against the usual, the standard operating procedure.  We have a chance to change the impersonal treatment we receive, even if we have to do it one little step at a time.” The”
― Debra Samson, Between