"I’ve spent too many years explaining who and what I am repeatedly, so as of this moment I officially secede from both races. I plan to start my own separate nation. Because I am half Ojibway and half Caucasian, we will be called the Occasions. And of course, since I’m founding the new nation, I will be a Special Occasion."

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Source : Drew Hayden Taylor (1998). “Funny, You Don't Look Like One: Observations of a Blue-eyed Ojibway”, Penticton, B.C. : Theytus Books, l998.

Drew Hayden Taylor

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“Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.”
“I have a degree in cinema studies and the big paper I wrote at the end of that was about Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli. So I thought that I knew quite a bit about Judy Garland, but I read in passing that the Stonewall riots were a reaction to her death and I had never really read enough to know what that meant or how that could be true. I was interested in that I knew so much about Judy Garland, but I really didn't know this story.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I'm asking you not to be color blind, but to be color brave.”

Source : "Color blind or color brave?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2014.
“An extraordinary dancer, whose blend of tautness and buoyancy is not only exciting but also suggestive of clarity and immediacy with which dance can communicate deep, conflicting emotions.”
“Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.”
“Great programmers learn how to program their tools, not just use them.”
“What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.”

Source : "Jazz festival plans commemoration for trumpeter Al Hirt". www.cnn.com. April 28, 1999.
“For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.”

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