“When explorers first encountered my

people, they called us heathens, sun worshipers.

They didn’t understand that the sun

is a relative and illuminates our path

on this earth.”

– Joy Harjo

“For darkness restores what night cannot repair.

– Joseph Brodsky

“Names have power. This is the fundamental principle of magic everywhere.

Call out the name of a supernatural being, and you will have its instant and

undivided attention in the same way that your lost toddler will have yours the

second it calls your name.” 

― Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

“The ground upon which you stand is holy ground: never-never surrender it.” 

― Angelina Weld Grimke

“What would it mean to stand on the first page of the end of despair…”

–– Adrienne Rich

Dreams Before Waiting

“Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.” 

― Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine