Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

America is so accustomed to some depiction of native people that is entirely racist, and there's a perception that that is okay. ”

I used to go to some Harvard parties with my athlete friends, and they would introduce me as 'Winona, the Indian activist.' It made me uncomfortable. I felt like a novelty. ”

I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East. So I asked my guidance counselor what Ivy League schools were. And I applied to Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth - that was it. My guidance counselor told me I wouldn't get into an Ivy League school. So as my act of resistance, that's all I applied to. ”

When I first came to Harvard, I thought to myself, 'What kind of an Indian am I?' because I did not grow up on a reservation. But being an Indian is a combination of things. It's your blood. It's your spirituality. And it's fighting for the Indian people. ”

The thing about being an Indian person is that you feel most at home with your own people. ”

In the normal course of things, journalists want their story, and as soon as they are through with it, they pack their cameras and go. That was never the impression that David Astor gave when you were interviewed by him. It was far deeper than that. ”

I wanted to be a doctor at some point, and I was always bringing home strays from school: people who were too poor to pay fees or have food. My parents never rebuked me or told me that they were hard-pressed, too. ”

There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known. ”

I'm like thousands of women in South Africa who lost their men to cities and prisons... I stand defiant, tall and strong. ”

I learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive. ”