"Did you ever wonder how it is we imagine the world in the way we do, how it is we imagine ourselves, if not through our stories. And in the English-speaking world, nothing could be easier, for we are surrounded by stories, and we can trace these stories back to other stories and from there back to the beginnings of language. For these are our stories, the cornerstones of our culture."
–– Thomas King (b. 1943), American-born Canadian Cherokee author
Source: Thomas King. The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative. Toronto, Ontario: House of Anansi Press, 2003; p. 95. This was a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Massey lecture. Thomas King is the first Massey lecturer of Indigenous descent in its then 42 year history. What took so long???
via Commonplace Book 2020-2021, p. 116.
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