Apple Quotes

“I tell you here what I have seen, what I have heard, what I have lived. I choose not to be silent, and you can choose to open your ears, and eyes, or close them. Maybe this story is not for you. We can agree that we each see the world differently, and each have a contribution to the larger story, and believe we have things to learn from each other.”
― Eric Gansworth, Apple: Skin to the Core

“maybe when my mother claimed there was no word for love, she was really saying that no word could encompass all the different ways we find it.”
― Eric Gansworth, Apple:

“Like Sir Isaac Newton, after insight hit in falling fruit, they recognized the perfect label for Indians not sharp enough to make it all the way home, left in that space between two places. Red on the outside, white on the inside, forever locked away from both worlds, separated by the thinnest membrane.”
― Eric Gansworth, Apple:

“We are still here, despite everything that has been taken away any moment we aren't looking”
― Eric Gansworth, Apple: Skin to the Core

“It is raining so the earth has turned mostly to mud, and I think of what the minister said when my brother died: “The rain comes and washes away his prints, so we can move on.” I wished for drought instead, so we wouldn’t lose every trace, but it rained for a week straight, and despite it being April, three feet of snow landed to make sure the job was done for good.”
― Eric Gansworth, Apple: Skin to the Core

“She says in every piece of art you make if you are Haudenosaunee, you include one flaw, intentionally, so you acknowledge that only the Creator can make something perfect.”
― Eric Gansworth, Apple: Skin to the Core

“We know the danger of this game, having both made the mistake of playing a similar game with our other friends, in which you tell three terrible stories about yourself, but two of them are lies. Your friends have to figure out the true one. It’s like that Meat Loaf song, but when you think of that title, “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad,” what you really mean to say here, is: “One of These Three Is Awful.”
― Eric Gansworth, Apple:

“If you excel, you will be “remarkable for being an Indian.” If you fail, you will be “no surprise because you’re an Indian.” Every observation in between extremes will be framed, even”
― Eric Gansworth, Apple:

“My mother explains we are not legless
birds, mutants. If she'd had a better education
she would have know the word
"ambiguous," not quite fish, more than snake,
but settling into her limitations, she says
we are among the few (the Marines?).
The last Tuscarora Eel died
a generation ago, so we are left
Onondaga Eels among the Tuscarora,
opinions dismissed by politics of representation,
voices silenced in air and water.”
― Eric Gansworth, Apple: Skin to the Core

“All you do when you are visible is map ways for yourself to be harmed by others, to give them the tools and strategies.”
― Eric Gansworth, Apple: Skin to the Core