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I decide to go direct to Key West... I know the place quite well, and it's near the points in Florida that I wish to visit. I have an idea at present of doing some work but do not know how long that will last. ”
When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being. ”
I look at my own reservation, the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota - on my reservation, one quarter of our money is spent on energy. All of that money basically goes to off-reservation vendors whether it is for electricity, or whether it is for fuel. ”
I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies. ”
Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together. ”
I often wonder why I attract so much criticism. ”
Nelson was locked up on Robben Island, and wives like me had been warned we would bring our husbands home as corpses from that place. But I always believed he would be released. It was my duty to have a home ready for us. ”
You think of floating on a rock in space as so alien, but that's exactly what we're doing. ”
I am literally just a human. I have the same brain as you; there's a skeleton under my skin just like yours. ”
Protecting space for civil society and citizenry is particularly critical in a world marked by rising political and economic inequality. ”