Bad Indians Book Club Quotes

“We don't just passively absorb the things we read. Books change us because we engage with them, we wrestle and argue with them. The power of book clubs and reading groups lies not just in who we read but in who we read with and why.”
― Patty Krawec, Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds

“Our history is the future.”6”
― Patty Krawec, Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds

“Those who would discover places and the beings that inhabit them could stand to learn stillness. To listen instead of react.”
― Patty Krawec, Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds

“She had to stop running, and it seemed to me that the best ones to teach stillness are stones.”
― Patty Krawec, Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds

“LandBack” means a restoration of relationship rather than the presumption of ownership.”
― Patty Krawec, Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds

“And remember, above all, the first rule of Bad Indians Book Club: Always carry a book.”
― Patty Krawec, Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds

“I want you to feel what is at stake in a world of book bans and alternative facts, to grasp the value of listening to those who are pushed to the edges and the communities we build there.”
― Patty Krawec, Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds

“But Bad Indians know that it wasn’t anything we did; we’re rejected because of who we are.”
― Patty Krawec, Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds