amen

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”

— Maya Angelou

There’s a sweetness in the way my grandmother says “I’m too cowardly to go anywhere” when I ask her to visit England.

Not so much in the bellicose bully who deepens his voice and growls “I don’t understand why n’the world anyone’d want to go to any other countries when they can just stay in America. There’s some bad things goin’ on there. Bad people. I ain’t never wanted to go nowhere but here.”

There’s a really good Telegraph article in there somewhere. I just have to write it.