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"Creativity required not only time, but dedication." "It's paradoxical, but the more specific something is, the more universal it is." @thommyorange speaks to us about art, creativity that can come from broken dreams, teaching "non-writers/readers" to write. #NCTE19
"We are ghosts before we die." "Native people are in direct contrast to the written word on the page...which is for broken treaties, blood contracts..." #NCTE19
"In the spirit of inquiry and being overlooked, I don't think I was ever handed a book before because a teacher thought that I would see myself reflected in it." @thommyorange #NCTE19
"Our current political climate (because we don't want to give Trump too much credit) is either a cancer we will die from or be transformed by." @thommyorange #NCTE19
"A certain distrust of the system is only natural when you've been taught that only white writers and their stories have value." @thommyorange #NCTE19
We are living in a time when we have the opportunity and responsibility to lift up stories and writers and people that have not been given their due for far too long. @thommyorange does not shy away from addressing institutional white supremacy within educational spaces. #NCTE19
"For us only to be historically depicted means we are already gone...and that is an awful thing to live with." @thommyorange #NCTE19 in conversation with the homie/elder and NCTE Vice President Alfredo Luján.
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