13 quotes
This story deserves to be told; all stories do. Even the waves of the sea tell a story that deserves to be read. The stories that really need to be told are those that shake the very soul of you.
Celia’s Song (2014)
I always say to people, you have a banquet — you come to the table with your own culture, a full banquet. If you don't share it, it's not writing!
Interview (2020)
Academicians waste a great deal of effort deleting character, plot and story from theoretical arguments
Oratory: Coming to Theory (1990)
We are called upon to continuously grow from the realizations that we come to when we speak.
Memory Serves: Oratories (2015)
I think I've done what I set out to do, which is give Canada a glimpse of who we are.
Interview (2020)
Teachings are not dictums to be blindly followed. They are meant to be the beginnings of the development of governance or theory, but the individual is expected to interpret them personally.
Memory Serves: Oratories (2015)
It is impossible to give a lecture or speak on any serious issue in the Indigenous world without placing it in the context of colonialism and our need for decolonization.
Memory Serves: Oratories (2015)
(You write about how reconciliation is a misnomer, that Indigenous people are still dying — what should we be talking about instead?) LM: The first part — truth. No truth, no reconciliation.
interview (2017)
What is the point of presenting the human condition in a language separate from the human experience: passion, emotion and character...We all strive to be orators
Oratory: Coming to Theory (1990)
All these things occurred in each village but a village doesn’t make a nation and that’s what I got from him (Khahtsahlano) – yea, we were a nation once and we can be again.
interview (2018)
There has to be humour to open up the person to the subject of change, the possibility of change. You have to be open. Humour opens people up.
Essays on Canadian Writing (2004)
Don't be a passive soldier for corporate or military murder. With peace and harmony in your heart go out and spend great effort, strenuous effort, to change the story of Canada. Be active, be resolute, be caring, and we shall eventually have peace.
Memory Serves: Oratories (2015)
I think welcoming newcomers now is more important than ever because we brought all these white men in and gave them land and now they say no to people of colour — it doesn’t work that way. Not for me, anyway.
interview (2017)