Elizabeth Cook-Lynn Quotes

• The journey through another world, beyond bad dreams beyond the memories of a murdered generation, cartographed in captivity by bare survivors makes sacristans of us all.

  Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

  Dream, Memories, Journey

  Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1983). “Seek the House of Relatives”

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• The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.

  Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

  Mother, Children, Father

  Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (2012). “From the River's Edge”, p.16, Living Justice Press

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• Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscans on the edge of useless law; we pray to the giver of prayer, we give the cane whistle in ceremony, we swing the heavy silver chain of incense burners. Migration makes new citizens of Rome.

  Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

  Prayer, Swings, Rome

  Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1983). “Seek the House of Relatives”

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