When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.
Interpretation
Displacing a child from their culture is a harmful act.
This quote by Lemn Sissay highlights the inherent harm and aggression associated with taking a child away from their native culture. It emphasizes the importance of cultural identity and the psychological impact of cultural dislocation on a child's development and well-being.
In practice
This quote can be used in discussions about cultural appropriation in education.
Despite the changes which come into our lives and with gratitude in our hearts, may we fill our days-as much as we can-with those things which matter most. May we cherish those we hold dear and express our love to them in word and in deed.
Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
For often I have wished to see a person again without realising that it was simply because that personal recalled to me a hedge of hawthorns in blossom, and I have been led to believe, and to make someone else believe, in a renewal of affection, by what was no more than an inclination to travel.
I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
Ive lived and worked in developing countries so Im particularly interested in helping women in oppressive societies. Our problems can pale in comparison to theirs, the more we can do to empower them, the better off all women will be.
I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we're all the same.
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