“At school, my science teacher talked about the ozone layer even as aerosol hairspray kept clouding the bathroom stalls. I tried to tell Mom about climate change, but she acted like I was gullible. If I was mad about losing our land, I was even angrier about what they'd done to it. While I still didn't know about the massacres, I knew enough to feel robbed. Manhatten was purchased with beads. Valuable furs had been traded for whiskey. White people used empty promises as tender, and in exchange, we Indians got blood quantum, our lineages tracked like thoroughbreds or dogs, destined to be turned into glue.”
Source: Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
“The outward light is but a reflection of the inner.”
Source: The Seven Paths: Changing One's Way of Walking in the World
“As great as is the light above us, greater by far is the light within.”
Source: The Seven Paths: Changing One's Way of Walking in the World
“To live in the moment... is the only
footprint one must follow..”
“This [forced migration into cities] was part of the Indian Relocation Act, which was part of the Indian Termination Policy, which was and is exactly what it sounds like. Make them look and act like us. Become us. And so disappear.”
“The ground you walk on is sacred ground; it is the blood of our ancestors.”
“La perfetta uguaglianza è la base necessaria della libertà. Vale a dire, è necessario che fra quelli fra' quali il potere è diviso, non vi sia squilibrio di potere; e nessuno ne abbia più né meno di un altro. Perché in questo e non in altro è riposta l'idea, l'essenza e il fondamento della libertà.”
Source: Zibaldone di pensieri
“Change is neither good nor bad. It creates different situations, and that difference is what we have to understand, embrace and explore as an opportunity.”
Source: Future Value Generation: Do you need to create new Business Logics?
“Innovation comes from the Latin, “Innovare” - It means to change or alter things that already exist.”
Source: Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
“...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it.”
Source: Fi: A Memoir of My Son