Poetic Obituaries: "She would come wheeling up the aisle

in her wheelchair, I'm sure they were expecting some very quiet voice," said Pete White, executive director of the Los Angeles Community Action Network, a nonprofit group that works on behalf of the homeless and poor in downtown Los Angeles, of which [Donna] Valiente was a member. Instead "you have this lioness roaring from her wheelchair."

from Los Angeles Times: Donna Valiente, 48; activist and poet was a vocal advocate for aid to homeless on L.A.'s skid row

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