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“It lit me up to see my name, "Jesse Thistle," alongside "University of Ottawa." I'd done something significant. I'd actually achieved something in my life. I didn't have a driver's license, ID, a proper high school education, a health card, nothing—but there was this completion certificate that had "university" with my name under it!”
― From the Ashes: My Story of Being Indigenous, Homeless, and Finding My Way
― From the Ashes: My Story of Being Indigenous, Homeless, and Finding My Way
“All us criminals start out as normal people just like anyone else, but then things happen in life that tear us apart, that makes us into something capable of hurting other people. That's all any of the darkness really is—just love gone bad. We're just broken-hearted people hurt by life.”
― From the Ashes: My Story of Being Indigenous, Homeless, and Finding My Way
― From the Ashes: My Story of Being Indigenous, Homeless, and Finding My Way
“The world screamed past me. I lived amongst the Ewok shadows; I groaned misery and shifted as they did. I longed to be part of something again, to be known and accepted, to hear my name. No one ever said my name anymore. I never told anyone who I was for fear of being found out. For what? I didn't know. I'd forgotten years ago.”
― From the Ashes: My Story of Being Indigenous, Homeless, and Finding My Way
― From the Ashes: My Story of Being Indigenous, Homeless, and Finding My Way
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