Maracle Lee Quotes & Sayings

On the one hand, the reality is dire, on the other, reality is always false, it is a mask covering what is coming up underneath. — Lee Maracle

I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her. — Amy Lee

There is a continuity of mind, as the Yogis call it. The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind, all these little minds, are fragments of that universal mind, little waves in the ocean; and — Swami Vivekananda

Where do you begin telling someone their world is not the only one? - Lee Maracle, Ravensong — Thomas King

To be raped is to be sexually violated. For society to force someone, through shame and ostracism, to comply with love and sex that it defines, is nothing but organized rape. That is what homophobia is all about. Organized rape. — Lee Maracle

I think the arts has great potential to create citizens. Citizenship is about the direction your imagination travels. We can't plan or calculate or examine citizenship; it's an imagined thing. Community is an imagined thing. And if your imagination isn't working - and, of course, in oppressed people that's the first thing that goes - you can't imagine anything better. Once you can imagine something different, something better, then you're on your way. — Lee Maracle

We can only cope with the dangers of language if we recognize that language is by nature magical and therefore highly dangerous. — Owen Barfield

We must go on, because we can't turn back. — Robert Louis Stevenson

My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural. — Lee Maracle

I try to take a snapshot of who I am now, who I am becoming, as opposed to who I was when I was first starting to make records. I'm not trying to make boring adult music, but I try to make music more reflective of what matters to me now. — El-P

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love. — David Mitchell

There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women. — Lee Maracle