"Creole people were free people of color, and they could own land before many Black folks could. And so my family had …"

"I think that’s the part that scares me the most. We’re losing generations of people who know the anatomy of these thi…"

"now the land is perpetually saturated, because the water is rising, the water table is rising, the lake is rising"

"the sea level rise is real, and for those of us who are very close to the sea, we can see it."

"TV didn’t show the places around New Orleans. So driving across the bridge on Lake Pontchartrain, you have to go thro…"

"there are all of these researchers who were looking at South Louisiana before Katrina, many people concerned about se…"

"And that was a moment where you sort of have this — it’s surreal. You don’t — who can believe your land won’t be ther…"

"that land, for people like me, was tied to our freedom. You know, that land, the land and the right to be there was t…"

"people ask me all the time, if you know your land is going to go, why are you still fighting?...I don’t know what the…"

"I don’t have this law degree for nothing. And the laws as they are written right now are not meant for me, and they’r…"