• My mother told me stories all the time... And in all of those stories she told me who I was, who I was supposed to be, whom I came from, and who would follow me... That's what she said and what she showed me in the things she did and the way she lives.

    Paula Gunn Allen: My mother told me stories all the time... And in  all of those stories she told me who I was, who I  was supposed to be, whom I came from, and who would  follow me... That's what she said and what she showed  me in the things she did and the way she lives.