"I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on."

-- Robin McKinley

#Culture Quotes #Levels Quotes #Grassroots Quotes

“Don't make jokes about food.”
“Information comes through to me in 3 basic ways seen, hearing, and feeling the energy of the person that's crossed over. In which it is a symbolic type of language.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“At least I've had to come to that in my life, to realize that this stuff called failure, this stuff, this debris of historical trauma, family trauma, you know, stuff that can kill your spirit, is actually raw material to make things with and to build a bridge. You can use those materials to build a bridge over that which would destroy you.”

Source : "Joy Harjo's 'Crazy Brave' Path To Finding Her Voice". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. July 9, 2012.
“I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.”
“When you don't know what the answer is, you know *Who* the answer is.”
“When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.”
“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”

Source : Howard Zinn (1997). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.383, Seven Stories Press
“The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.”

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