“When your innocence is stripped from you, when your people are denigrated, when the family you came from is denounced and your tribal ways and rituals are pronounced backward, primitive, savage, you come to see yourself as less than human.… — 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 it, takes them beyond what they think and how they feel and empowers them to think and know even more. We’re all storytellers, really. That’s what we do. That is our power as human beings. Not… — Richard Wagamese Copy Share
“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 men beautiful. The thrill of it lifts people out of their seats.Dreams unfold right before your eyes, conjured by a stick and a puck on a hundred and eighty feet of ice. The players? The good… — Richard Wagamese Copy Share
“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 with. It was like the change in the air that comes before a storm. You feel the energy build but there’s nothing you can do to stop it. That’s what it was like for me. When… — Richard Wagamese Copy Share
“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
