If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives

Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner.

Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land.

The truth about stories is, that's all we are.

Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous.

There are no truths. Only stories.

I learned very quickly that to be angry about something does not mean anybody's gonna listen to you.

Eden Robinson is one of those rare artists who comes to writing with a skill and maturity that has taken the rest of us decades to achieve.

If it ain't about what's real, what's happenin' right now, it ain't the blues.

History is the stories we tell about the past.

More than that, in the five hundred years of European OCCUPATION, Native cultures have already driven themselves to be remarkably tenacious and resilient.

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it

Flower will not grow, if the stem doesn't allow

Perfectionism is slow death.

Take in everything before you and let your eyes be drenched with beauty, and as you love beauty in a reverent way it becomes a sacrament to you.

An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out and went round the corner to the local supermarket because this to me is the front line.

People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.

A woman is a mystery to guide a wise and open man.

all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.