“I'm twenty-three years old, I'm working graveyard in the fucking mine and I been there since I was sixteen. I'll be thee until it kills me or I'm too fucking old. I ain't got no out. I don't mind that.… — Richard Wagamese Copy Share Image
“Use the act of breathing to shape air into sounds that take on the context of language that lifts and transports those who hear… — Richard Wagamese Copy Share Image
“The towns and the players are all different. But the game is always the same, its speed and power. Hockey’s grace and poetry make… — Richard Wagamese Copy Share Image
“I gave them nothing back because all I knew was the vast amount they had taken from me, robbed me of, cheated me out… — Richard Wagamese Copy Share Image
“But there were always things swimming around in me that I could neither hold on to long enough to comprehend or learn to live… — Richard Wagamese Copy Share Image
“We were hockey gypsies, heading down another gravel road every weekend, plowing into the heart of that magnificent northern landscape. We never gave a… — Richard Wagamese Copy Share Image
“When your innocence is stripped from you, when your people are denigrated, when the family you came from is denounced and your tribal ways… — Richard Wagamese Copy Share Image
“Benjamin and I sat in the middle of one of the large canoes with our grandmother in the stern, directing us past shoals and… — Richard Wagamese Copy Share Image
“All that we are is story. From the moment we are born to the time we continue on our spirit journey, we are involved… — Richard Wagamese Copy Share Image
“I understood then that when you miss a thing it leaves a hole that only the thing you miss can fill.” — Richard Wagamese Copy Share Image
“For my wife Deborah, for allowing me to bask in her light and become more.” — Richard Wagamese Copy Share Image
“That's what's important really, Keeper says. Learning how to be what the Creator created you to be. Face your truth.” — Richard Wagamese Copy Share Image
