"I love speaking. I love our orality, its rhythm, its ease, the way we can slip into poetry, story, even song and dance, break the tedium with a joke, particularly an anti-colonial joke. I love how the speaker gets to wander around and through a subject with the audience. On paper, though, the words can lose much of the personality of the speaker, jokes don't fit, and the sidebars, the off-the-cuff remarks, detract and can even trivialize the thoughts shared. When you speak you deliver a voice; everyone knows that what you think is also what you feel. In speaking, there is no problem delivering the integrity of your emotionality. But in writing you evoke, instead of expressing, your feelings. When the immediacy that links speaker and audience is absent on the page, you must find other ways of sharing the feelings that give rise to your thoughts."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lee_Maracle
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Lee Maracle
Bobbi Lee Maracle (born Marguerite Aline Carter; July 2, 1950 – November 11, 2021) was a writer and academic who was a member of Stó꞉lō nation.
34 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Lee Maracle →
Related Quotes
"This story deserves to be told; all stories do. Even the waves of the sea tell a story that deserves to be read. The …"
"Academicians waste a great deal of effort deleting character, plot and story from theoretical arguments"
"What is the point of presenting the human condition in a language separate from the human experience: passion, emotio…"
"It is impossible to give a lecture or speak on any serious issue in the Indigenous world without placing it in the co…"
"We are called upon to continuously grow from the realizations that we come to when we speak."
"Teachings are not dictums to be blindly followed. They are meant to be the beginnings of the development of governanc…"
"There is another way to be, to think, to know, and when Canadians witness another way, perhaps the colonial dominatio…"
"PEACE: tranquility, freedom from strife, freedom from warring conditions, freedom from conditions that annoy the mind…"
"Creation is not a passive process. Our mother, the earth, knows it is not a passive process; the earth is not a passi…"
"I have seen many of you at book launches, panels, conferences, gatherings of all sorts, including protests against so…"