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Academicians waste a great deal of effort deleting character, plot and story from theoretical arguments

— Lee Maracle Oratory: Coming to Theory (1990)

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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