Ema Mac Duff

“I was mesmerized by the giant, long-necked machine, craning up and down, up and down. So that was what it was sucking up. Our people from long ago, from the beginning. It was sucking up our past.”
― Nemonte Nenquimo, We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People

“We had invited my elders to see what was here - the oil pits, the pipelines. But they had seen beyond that. They had seen what was not here. They had seen what was missing from these wounded lands.”
― Nemonte Nenquimo, We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche