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“I’ve been through all this before,’ he says to his heart.
“ ‘Yes, you have been through all this before,’ replies his heart. ‘But you have never been beyond it.”
― Warrior of the Light
“ ‘Yes, you have been through all this before,’ replies his heart. ‘But you have never been beyond it.”
― Warrior of the Light
“...so i will greet you
in a way
all loved things
are meant to be greeted
with a tear in my heart
and a poem in my eye.”
― Turquoise Silence
in a way
all loved things
are meant to be greeted
with a tear in my heart
and a poem in my eye.”
― Turquoise Silence
“if you were to identify a single person who embodies us Indians the best, who do you think it should be? Ideally, it should be a tribal woman because she is most likely to be carrying the deepest-rooted and widest-spread mtDNA lineage in India today, M2. In a genetic sense, she would represent all of our history, with very little left out. She shares the most with the largest number of Indians, no matter where in the social ladder they stand, what language they speak and which region they inhabit because we are all migrants, and we are all mixed.”
― Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From
― Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From
“You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.”
― Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980
the truth is furiously knocking.”
― Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980
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