Quotes about "Indigenous Wisdom"

Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature. ”

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. ”

Everyone has some sort of connection to mental illness. ”

One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before any house of God was builded, the devil got his restraining engine. ”

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far. ”

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature. ”

Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There's a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears. ”

A tendency to make metaphorical connections is an occupational hazard for those of us who write. ”

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity. ”

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied. ”