The Language and Poetry of Flowers (1858)

H.G. Adams
Moral of Flowers

We have called the flowers "silent monitors," and not unadvisedly, for many are the lessons they teach, of patient submission, meek endurance, and innocent cheerfulness under the pressure of adverse circumstances.

The Six Triple Eight (2024)

Captain Charity Adams to recruits

Your uniform must be perfect. Lieutenant Campbell will teach you how to make them perfect. These uniforms were designed for the pencil figure of a white woman, not the curves of a Negro. But I am sure that more than a few of us how how to make use of a needle and a thread, and so we will make them perfect. They must be perfect. No exceptions. You are not only in the army, you are women, and you are Negroes. And because you are Negroes and women, you do not have the luxury to be as good as the white soldiers. You have the burden to be better.