Lois

“Night is never as dark as when one refuses to shine a lantern to see.”
― J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

“I don't expect everyone to feel the same way that I do about land. For so many of us, the scars are still too fresh. Fields of cotton stretching to the horizon - land worked, sweated, and suffered over for the profit of others - probably don't engender warm feelings among most black people. But the land, in spite of its history, still holds hope for making good on the promises we thought it could, especially if we can reconnect to it. The reparations lie not in what someone will give us, but in what we already own. The land can grow crops for us as well as it does for others. It can yield loblolly pine and white oak for us as it has for others. And it can nurture wildlife and the spirit for us, just like it has for others.”
― J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

“I believe the best way to begin reconnecting humanity's heart, mind, and soul to nature is for us to share our individual stories.”
― J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

“It's possible that in holding back the full truth of who I was, I was also holding back myself, which shut me off from experiencing the thrill of falling in love. That's just one of the many ways my secret has cost me. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.”
― Mimi Alford, Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath