The Reading Robin’s Reviews > A Steady Brightness of Being: Truths, Wisdom, and Love from Celebrated Indigenous Voices > Status Update

“We are like the canary in the coal mine. You need us and our knowledge for rebalancing this world for our collective future.” - Kent Monkman

“The fact is that Indigenous peoples had to understand the world before they could talk about it. In other words, we are scientists before we are storytellers or artists.” - Kent Monkman

“So what we must do is rebuild the very understanding of community that we seem to have collectively lost.” - Jesse Wente

“I love us, and I believe we are divine—existing by chance, born from some giant red ancient star, set to earth: a fire with mission…” - Terese Marie Mailhot

“It is stories that give shape to a life. But because he never talked about [his trauma], my father didn’t inherit stories; he inherited shame.”