Jennifer

“We are the earth, the land. The tongue that speaks and trips on the names of the dead as it dares to tell these stories of a woman’s line. Her people and her dirt, her trees,”
― Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

“A tear rolled down my cheek. If you died, I realized just then, it would mean that I’d be the keeper of our memories. I’d be the only one on Earth who had experienced them.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“when my parents are no longer alive, I will always be able to put their teachings and all the love they gave me into a bowl and present it to someone who sadly will never have had the good fortune of knowing them. But by eating that food, they will come to know them, if even just a little.”
― Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

“[T]he only thing that has power over you is what you can't say, even to yourself.”
― Naomi Jackson, The Star Side of Bird Hill