Take Us To Your Chief And Other Stories Quotes

“First Nations and science fiction don't usually go together. In fact, they could be considered rather unusual topics to mention in the same sentence, much like fish and bicycles.... To me, sci-fi was a world of possibilities. As a fan of writing, why shouldn't my fascination extend to such unconventional works? It was still writing, still literature in all its glory, but here they used different tools to explore the human condition, be they aliens, advanced technology, or other such novel approaches.... I wanted to take traditional (a buzzword in the Native community) science-fiction characteristics and filter them through an Aboriginal consciousness.”
― Drew Hayden Taylor, Take Us To Your Chief And Other Stories

“He sounded like a lot of the youth in our community, stuck between the past and the future. The true goal is finding enough of both to make your life worth living.”
― Drew Hayden Taylor, Take Us To Your Chief And Other Stories

“Well, dawn could be whenever you got up. The problem was that when you started rationalizing too many things, the significance of the original action was diminished.”
― Drew Hayden Taylor, Take Us To Your Chief And Other Stories