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“If you're fluent in a language there's a place you belong.”
― Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language

“Language that aims toward perfection, she told me, is a lie. Shakespeare knew this, she said, and broke English until its dictionaries grew by a thousand entries. Tennyson knew it in 1835 when he, the Great Poet, used one word to express a vastness. Break, break, break.”
― Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language

“Ceremony is a vehicle for belonging—to a family, to a people, and to the land.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“But then again maybe a country that routinely prefers power over strength, and living over letting live, is no country for eight-spot butterflies.”
― Julian Aguon, No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay