Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Lee Maracle

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian poet Lee Maracle.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Bobbi Lee Maracle was an Indigenous Canadian writer and academic of the Stó꞉lō nation. Born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, she left formal education after grade 8 to travel across North America, attending Simon Fraser University on her return to Canada. Her first book, an autobiography called Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel, was published in 1975. She wrote fiction, non-fiction, and criticism and held various academic positions. Maracle's work focused on the lives of Indigenous people, particularly women, in contemporary North America.

Canadian - Poet | Born: July 2, 1950

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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 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

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

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

Lee Maracle

Where do you begin telling someone their world is not the only one?

Lee Maracle