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Beth Brant
9 quotes
“words are sacred”
Beth Brant (1941–2015) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Writing as Witness: Essay and Talk (1994)
“Mother, I am gay. I have AIDS." The telephone call that it almost killed him to make. The silence. Then, "Come home to us.”
Beth Brant (1941–2015) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: beginning of the short story "This Place" collected in Food & Spirits (1991)
“The old women are gathered in the Longhouse. First, the ritual kissing on the cheeks, the eyes, the lips, the top of the head; that spot where the hair parts in the middle like a wild river through a canyon. (beginning of "Native Origin")”
Beth Brant (1941–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It has been two days since they came and took the children away. My body is greatly chilled. All our blankets have been used to bring me warmth. The women keep the fire blazing. The men sit. They talk among themselves. We are frightened by this sudden child-stealing. We signed papers, the agent said. This gave them rights to take our babies. It is good for them, the agent said. It will make them civilized, the agent said. I do not know civilized. (from "A Long Story")”
Beth Brant (1941–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Two-Spirit writers are merging the selves that colonialism splits apart.”
Beth Brant (1941–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Homophobia is the eldest son of racism; they work in concert with each other, whether externally or internally. Native lesbian writing names those twin evils that would cause destruction to us.”
Beth Brant (1941–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I look on Native women's writing as a gift, a give-away of the truest meaning. Our spirit, our sweat, our tears, our laughter, our love, our anger, our bodies are distilled into words that we bead together to make power. Not power over anything. Power. Power that speaks to hearts as well as to minds.”
Beth Brant (1941–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am tired of hearing Virginia Woolf and Emily Dickinson held up as the matriarchs of feminist and/or women's literature. Woolf was a racist, Dickinson was a woman of privilege who never left her house, nor had to deal with issues beyond which white dress to wear on a given day. Race and class have yet to be addressed, or if they are discussed, it is on their terms not ours”
Beth Brant (1941–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oral tradition requires a telling and a listening that is intense, and intentional. Giving, receiving, giving-it makes a complete circle of Indigenous truth. First Nations writing utilizes the power and gift of story, like oral tradition, to convey history, lessons, culture and spirit. And perhaps the overwhelming instinct in our spirit is to love. I would say that Native writing gives the gift of love. And love is a word that is abused and made empty by the dominant culture. In fact, the letters l-o-v-e have become just that, blank cyphers used frivolously to cover up deep places of the spirit.”
Beth Brant (1941–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source