Top 19 Thomas King Quotes
#1. Democracy ... .[is not] ... simply a form of government but an organizing principle that bundles individual freedoms, Christianity, and capitalism into a marketable product carrying with it the unexamined promise of wealth and prosperity.
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#2. The fact of Native existence is that we live modern lives informed by traditional values and contemporary realities and that we wish to live those lives in our terms.
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#3. Historians are not often appreciated because their research tends to destroy myths. I
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#4. Where do you begin telling someone their world is not the only one? - Lee Maracle, Ravensong
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#5. I learned very quickly that to be angry about something does not mean anybody's gonna listen to you.
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#6. Or, if you want the positive but somewhat callous view, you might wish to describe Christianity as the gateway drug to supply-side capitalism
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#7. You have to be careful with the stories you tell. And you have to watch out for the stories that you are told.
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#8. To be sure, they have had the occasional success, but there is little chance that North America will develop a functional land ethic until it finds a way to overcome its irrational addiction to profit.
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#9. The truth about stories is, that's all we are.
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#10. Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner.
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#11. History is the stories we tell about the past.
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#12. "Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous."
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#13. More than that, in the five hundred years of European OCCUPATION, Native cultures have already driven themselves to be remarkably tenacious and resilient.
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#14. There are no truths, Coyote," I says. "Only stories.
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#15. In our cynical world, where suspicion is a necessity, insisting that something is true is not nearly as powerful as suggesting that something might be true.
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#16. And cranky old Jacques Derrida notwithstanding, we do love our dichotomies.
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#17. 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.
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#18. 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.
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#19. The truth about stories is that that's all we are.
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