“There are deeper relationships being formed and a deeper understanding of our love for each other and also our lives.”

“Hurricanes, storms destroy us and we forget about them instantly and we rebuild. We just have very little capacity to alter our ways. My fear is that when the pandemic disappears...we will act as if it never happened.”

“I think what people should understand about whistleblowers is that they’re Americans who love and care for their country just like anyone else, and have chosen to take a very risky step to say no and to stand up against the powers that be.“

“Monolingualism is a carbon monoxide of cultures and multilingualism is the oxygen of cultures [...] In an equal give and take, [languages] enrich each other. Languages have borrowed words from other languages, quite happily.”

“During this pandemic I think we have the opportunity to see this as a transformative time, as well as a deploy harrowing time, but that the seeds of renewal are beneath our feet.”

“There seems to be some slippage to the essential service, to the inessential service, to the expendable industry and from there to the expendable human being, and no human being is expendable. Not one.”

“The meaning of life, for me, and it never changed, is you find out who you are. Your duty is to find out who you are, what you are, and do the very best you can with that, and share what you do with other people. That’s what I’ve done my whole life.”

“My worry is not that we are socially distant, which we are, which we have been even before quarantine. My worry is that we are spiritually distant, and unless we leave this time with a more serious understanding of our spiritual and ancestral resources, then it’s going to be very hard for anyone to believe that we can access trans-generational ecstasy.”

“Once there is that outreach to the police, we try to find solutions for that community member, even if it means directing them to find who can assist their problem, as opposed to stepping back and saying, ‘It’s not my problem’. Now that is critical to the relationship that exists and we build between our police officers and the community.”

“What we need to do is we need to talk out to communities about what the specific public safety challenges are that they face...and then we need to look at whether or not we can come up with credible, non-police strategies to address those specific concerns.”