Drew Hayden Taylor Quotes & Sayings

To me, strange is just another way of saying unusual. And unusual is just another way of saying special — Drew Hayden Taylor

But colonization had a nasty tendency to work its way into the DNA, the beliefs and philosophies and the very ways of life of the people being colonized. — Drew Hayden Taylor

I've spent too many years explaining who and what I am repeatedly, so as of this moment I officially secede from both races. I plan to start my own separate nation. Because I am half Ojibway and half Caucasian, we will be called the Occasions. And of course, since I'm founding the new nation, I will be a Special Occasion. — Drew Hayden Taylor

I grew up in a village of about 800 people surrounded by lakes and woods, and I think it's made a definite impact on me. — Drew Hayden Taylor

You must remember, all stories start somewhere. — Drew Hayden Taylor

The thunderbirds, like dinosaurs, were now creatures of the past: lost long ago, with the coming of disease and famine brought by hairy strangers. Except, in today's world dinosaurs were celebrated by palaeontologists and thunderbirds by cultural anthropologists. But John still remembered them, those magnificent creatures. (...) They, like the man on the motorcycle, had been born in an age when gods, monsters, humans and animals ate at the same table. Now man ate alone, while animals begged for scraps. The others were unable to survive in the new times and had disappeared into the folds of time. Who knew gods and monsters could and did fall victim to evolution? — Drew Hayden Taylor