Why Indigenous Literatures Matter Quotes

“We’re stubborn people, queer folks and Indians and queer Indians alike. Green shoots rise quickly from burnt-over earth—and rarely, if ever, in solitude.”
― Daniel Heath Justice, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

“But if the only thing defining us is trauma, or wounding, most of us wouldn’t be here. Our stories are about far more than the dominant presumption of Indigenous lack or deficiency; our bodies are not only objects of contestation, or devastation, or pain, or suffering.”
― Daniel Heath Justice, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter