Linda

“Aren't we all descendants of foreigners at this table? Emily asked. Not a single one of us is an Indian, correct?”
― Amanda Flower, I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died

“Hospitality was not a voluntary action that a person extended to friends and colleagues. It was a society-wide obligation that every household was duty bound to extend to strangers, foreigners, travelers, and sojourners. Because the societal weave was based on familial relationships, the societal welfare demanded that households offer temporary shelter and food to anyone who was brought by life circumstance into a household's territory at the end of a day.”
― Ralf A. Jacobson / Michael J. Chan

“One of the simplest arguments against change is to say that something is too expensive, unsafe, or impossible. ....it distracts from the issue that when something is a civil right we must have ingenuity.”
― Judith Heumann

“Flowers on the wall remind me spring will come even in the deepest trench of winter. Flowers are hope, you see.”
― Amanda Flower, Because I Could Not Stop for Death