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Kiss of the Fur Queen QUOTES

Kiss of the Fur Queen QUOTES

1 " The Trickster, of course," Gabriel finally answered himself, "Weesageechak for sure. The clown who bridges humanity and God - a God who laughs, a God who's here, not for guilt, not for suffering, but for a good time. Except this time, the Trickster representing God as a woman, a goddess in fur. Like in this picture. I've always thought that, ever since we were little kids. I mean, if Native languages have no gender, then why should we? And why, for that matter, should God? "

― Tomson Highway , Kiss of the Fur Queen

2 " Don't mourn me. Be joyful. "

― Tomson Highway , Kiss of the Fur Queen

3 " The mall,” said Jeremiah early next morning as he reached for the handle of the large glass door, “was invented in Winnipeg, "

― Tomson Highway , Kiss of the Fur Queen

4 " Wars start when two parties haven't taken the time to learn each other's tongues "

― Tomson Highway , Kiss of the Fur Queen

5 " At night, when the streets of your cities and villages are silent, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them, and still love this beautiful land. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not powerless. "

― Tomson Highway , Kiss of the Fur Queen

6 " I mean, if Native languages have no gender, then why should we? And why, for that matter, should God? "

― Tomson Highway , Kiss of the Fur Queen

7 " I mean, if Native languages have no gender, then why should we? "

― Tomson Highway , Kiss of the Fur Queen

8 " What I did, I did on my own. Don't mourn me. Be joyful. "

― Tomson Highway , Kiss of the Fur Queen

9 " We're Indian! We have a right to conduct our own religious ceremonies, just like everyone else! "

― Tomson Highway , Kiss of the Fur Queen

10 " Yet he knew that destiny played with lives; the most a parent could do was help steer. "

― Tomson Highway , Kiss of the Fur Queen

11 " But Gabriel saw people talking to the sky, the sky replying. And he knew he had to learn this dance. Someday soon, he may need it. "

― Tomson Highway , Kiss of the Fur Queen

12 " if machipoowamoowin, bad dream power, was obvioulsy powerful enough to snuff out a human life, then would not mithoopoowamoowin, good dream power, be as strong? "

― Tomson Highway , Kiss of the Fur Queen

13 " Essentially a comic, clownish sort of character, his role is to teach us about the nature and the meaning of existence on the planet Earth; he straddles the consciousness of man and that of God, the Great Spirit. "

― Tomson Highway , Kiss of the Fur Queen

14 " The most explicit distinguishing feature between the North American Indian languages and the European languages is that in Indian, there is no gender. In Cree, Ojibway, etc., unlike English, French, German, etc., the male-female-neuter hierarchy is entirely absent. So that by this system of thought, the central hero figure from our mythology - theology, if you will - is theoretically neither exclusively male nor exclusively female, or is both simultaneously. "

― Tomson Highway , Kiss of the Fur Queen

15 " Some say that Weesaceechak left this continent when the white man came. We believe she/he is still here among us - albeit a little the worse for ear and tear - having assumed other guises. Without the continued presence of this extraordinary figure, the core of Indian culture would be gone forever. "

― Tomson Highway , Kiss of the Fur Queen

16 " As a certain philosopher of ancient Greece once put it, the difference between the historian and poet/storyteller is that where the historian relates what happened, the storyteller tells us how it might have come about. "

― Tomson Highway , Kiss of the Fur Queen

17 " He narrowed his eyes to slits so that he could peer into the eyes of this shameless, strutting personage to whom, apparently, modesty was unknown. He took careful note of the fact that the king - "Lucy," the priest called him - was not glaring venomously. King Lucy was grinning, King Lucy was having a good time. "

― Tomson Highway , Kiss of the Fur Queen

18 " Wars start when two parties haven't taken the time to learn each other's tongues. "

― Tomson Highway , Kiss of the Fur Queen

19 " You never told us how to spend time alone in the midst of half a million people. Here, stars don't shine at night, trees don't speak. "

― Tomson Highway , Kiss of the Fur Queen

20 " You can sell a woman?
In cities, it's done all the time, all the time. It's like selling meat. "

― Tomson Highway , Kiss of the Fur Queen