Derek Newman-Stille

“We children were terrified by the story. We still listened to the old believers, they who were never dismissive, they who were never afriad to entertain the shadow”
― Tom Dawe, Spirited Away: Fairy stories of old Newfoundland

“He sounded like a lot of the youth in our community, stuck between the past and the future. The true goal is finding enough of both to make your life worth living.”
― Drew Hayden Taylor, Take Us To Your Chief And Other Stories

“I yearned for these other worlds where magic empowers people who understood it because I wanted to change my world, my place in it. I wanted to either be more visible, seen for who I am in my entirety and respected for it... or else I wanted to be even more invisible, protected from a world that would attempt to destroy me if others knew I was unlike them. That I was other. That I was queer”
― Christopher Barzak

“There are times when so much talk or writing, so many ideas seem to stand in the way, to block the awareness that for the oppressed, the exploited, the dominated, domination is not just a subject for radical discourse, for books. It is about pain – the pain of hunger, the pain of over-work, the pain of degradation and dehumanization, the pain of loneliness, the pain of loss, the pain of isolation, the pain of exile... Even before the words, we remember the pain.”
― bell hooks, Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black