"This is my life. I do not have any control over the pain and brutality of living the life of a dispossessed person. I cannot control when that pain and brutality is going to enter into my life. I have settled with having to deal with racism, pure and simple. But, I was not ready to have my pain appropriated. I am pretty possessive about my pain. It is my pain. I worked hard for it. Some days it is all I have. Some days it is the only thing I can feel. Do not try to take that away from me too." --Patricia Monture, First Nations--Canada