Ndn Quotes

“I'm ravenous for the future, but my longings are incompatible with the available versions of it. Bummer.”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

“Desirous of a beautiful life I get out of bed, but it's Monday and I'm in the throes of a genocide.”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

“I'm as lonely and as brief as a country.”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

“Suicide prevention, then, can't simply be about keeping NDNs in the world if it remains saturated by that which dulls the sensation of aliveness for those who are queer and/or trans and/or two-spirit.”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

“Freedom makes breathing easier; it begets an atmosphere governed by joy, not oppression. Freedom is a measure of breathability.”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

“What determines our lives as NDNs and/or queers are pain and trauma, love and hope. Death looms at all scales, individual to planetary.”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

“What might it look like for NDNs to refuse life in the wake of all that's happened to us in a country in which we're social experiments before all else?”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt

“If I try to compose anything but sad poems, I fear it'll be akin to a widower trying to convince others that he has found happiness again by wearing a T-shirt that says HAPPINESS.”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

“An NDN is the soul of a country. Racism, then, is a kind of moral death drive, an ethical desertion inflected on oneself.”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

“I couldn't fuck my way out of white supremacy. (One can accomplish the opposite, unfortunately.)”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body