...had been persecuted for at least a thousand years, there was no way Sapphire was going to hang out a shingle announcing that she was a Gypsy. Not now that 'romania,' the carefully guarded Gypsy way of life, language, spiritualism, separatism, and law, was preserved and intact. In the U.S., blending in - becoming invisible - was the best means of keeping 'romania' alive."
Suzann Kale, A Gypsy on Tenth Avenue, p. 161-162
