Ashley McMullen

“You must remember, mijo, even people who were once your sails can become your anchors.”
― Xóchitl González, Olga Dies Dreaming

“Environmental justice cannot be separated from social justice. The two are deeply intertwined.”
― Laura Coleman

“Animals are complete all their own, living voices we don't get to hear, having a knowing far beyond our paltry ken.”
― Lynda Rutledge, West with Giraffes

“Dene wants to tell him he'd looked up the [Gertrude Stein] quote in its original context, in her Everybody's Autobiography, and found that she was talking about the place where she'd grown up in Oakland had changed so much, that so much development had happened there, that the there of her childhood, the there there, was gone, there was no there there anymore. Dene wants to tell him it's what happened to Native people, he wants to explain that they're not the same, that Dene is Native, born and raised in Oakland, from Oakland. ... The quote is important to Dene. This there there. He hadn't read Gertrude Stein beyond the quote. But for Native people in this country, all over the Americas, it's been developed over, buried ancestral land, glass and concrete and wire and steel, unreturnable covered memory. There is no there there.”
― Tommy Orange, There There