• 'As the clouds slowly lifted, a high ridge appeared beyond the Nemiah Stampede rodeo grounds. People pointed to barely visible figures moving about on the ridge, but it was impossible to tell what they were doing. Snatches of overheard conversation revealed the much-anticipated mountain race was about to begin...'

- Mary-Ellen Kelm, Chapter 6 "Where the Cowboys are Indians."

• 'I hope people are reminded of themselves, in all their uniqueness/weirdness when they hear me and can feel total confidence in those parts of their identity. I’m just like everyone else, going through ups and downs trying to make sense of it all. I’m just grateful I’ve got the ability to explore it and express some ideas about it through music. Honestly, life is a long, at times relentless journey, and I want my songs to help people reflect on it, take the edge off, and lighten some heavy loads. Just as the greats before me have done.'

- Tamir Holder, "Rap horizons" interview

• 'Can you have development without displacement in a capitalist urbanization context?'

- probably from uni readings..

• 'I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think.'

- Destruction (The Sandman Comics)

• 'The object of travel is not to set foot in a foreign land, but at last to set foot in your own country as a foreign land.'

- Gilbert (The Sandman Netflix show)

• 'I remember laying my head on her knee – the patterns of the fabrics of her salwars embedded in my memory: acorn shapes in a sea of yellow joy, creamy tree branches on a burgundy background.'

- Sarindar Dhaliwal, The First Wedding, an AGO Exhibition

• '...the use of diversity in tokenistic ways - by creating ethnic or other culturally differentiated commodities in order to exploit specialized niche markets or by adding festive, ethnic color to classrooms - must not paper over real conflicts of power and interest. Only by dealing authentically with them can we create out of diversity and history a new, vigorous, and equitable public realm.'

- New London Group, "Pedagogy of Multiliteracies"

• 'Literacy teaching is not about skills and competence; it is aimed at creating a kind of person, an active designer of meaning, with a sensibility open to differences, change and innovation.'
• 'There is a deadening institutional inertia in schools and their disciplines, in the heritage physical architecture of school buildings and the institutional architecture of educational bureaucracy.' 182

- Cope, B., & Kalantzis, M. (2009) “Multiliteracies”: New Literacies, New Learning"