-- Turkish Proverb
", "Tell me a fact and I'll learn. Tell me a truth and I'll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever.-- Indian Proverb
", "When the heart overflows, it comes out through the mouth.-- Ethiopian Proverb
", "It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story.-- Native American Saying
", "Words should be weighed, not counted.-- Jewish Proverb
", "When our kids lose the language, they forget who they are and where they come from. When that happens, it's like cutting the spirit out of a young child.-- Forrest Cuch (Director of the Division of Education of the Ute Tribe), Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah
", "Before a tree grows into this world, it is a spirit. The spirit the tree has and the spirit that you have has no separation. You can't tell the difference, because they're the spirit of the same thing.-- Cliford Duncan (Tribal Museum Director, Spiritual Leader, Native American Church), Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah
", "After you've been in it for over sixty years, and been told you're not the right color, you are not going to be openhearted overnight…Once you are marked by prejudice, you don't erase and you don't forget.-- Frances Leggroan Flemming (Elevator Operator, Maid), Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah
", "If you can persevere, you come out somehow. You don't come out the wealthiest in the world, but you survive.-- Doris Steward Frye (Maid, Farmer), Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah
", "I explained that America had a constitutional process and that men somehow grew to their jobs…So there I was, selling America to those forlorn, skeletal, decrepit people, many of whom were political prisoners.-- Joel Shapiro (Merchant), Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah
", "I was born in New York City, and I don't know if it's important to know that I was born in a charity ward there in the hospital on March 11, 1911.-- Bernard Rose (Attorney), Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah
", "There was no way for my dad to bring me over legally [at the time], so he just pretended I was somebody else. I came in with an assumed name, as a child or another family.-- Helen Ong Louie (Restaurateur), Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah
", "I had one suitcase when I arrived. I was one of the few students who brought lots of jeans and casual clothes…But that's the only aspect of American life I was prepared for. Everything else was shockingly new and disturbing.-- Gordon Su (Computer Program Analyst, Hercules Corporation), Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah
", "In the environment I grew up in, I never thought much about the American dream. We were raised under the influence of hard work…I don't know if that's a dream or not. That's just something we knew was going to happen in our lives.-- Eugene Robert Barber (Railroad Worker, Truck Driver), Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah
", "My mother--I couldn't describe my mother. She was a jewel--she was just out of this world.-- Filomena Fazzio Bonacci (Seamstress, Laundry Worker), Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah
", "So I went to Kyoto. I didn't work long as a maid, because I learned I was going to go to America [as a bride]. My parents had arranged the marriage. But I didn't see or know my future husband, although we were from the same village.-- Chiyo Matsumiya (Housewife, Seamstress), Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah
", "Father escaped and hid out in the mountains. After a month of walking alone during the night and hiding out in the daytime, he walked about five hundred miles en route to Salt Lake City.-- Edward Hashimoto (Physician, Professor of Gross Anatomy), Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah
", "Most men worked in the mines, and they worked hard. But the women worked twice as hard. And they were never acknowledged. They were taken for granted.-- Ellen Furgis (Social Activist, Housewife, Writer), Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah
", "Where it said religion, I wrote \"Orthodox.\" And she just looked at me and said, \"You will not do in this store,\" and openly--in front of my eyes-tore up my application and dropped it in the wastebasket.-- Mary Kannes Diamant (Homemaker), Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah
", "As a four-year-old boy, I remember waiting by the tracks for my dad to come home from work. We had a little game going on. He would always have something left over in his lunch bucket for me.-- John Florez (Social Worker, Community Activist, Director of Equal Employment Opportunity at the University of Utah), Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah
", "Throughout all the years of my life, it was the same people in the same areas. All the time. We saw the same people in the Guadalupe Church as at Pioneer Park. For years, in fact, it was a neighborhood that didn't get any bigger.-- Daniel Maldonado (Shoemaker), Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah
", "We couldn't afford chairs or beds. I remember my dad made us benches.-- Francisca \"Pancha\" Gonzales (Migrant Worker, Homemaker, Waitress), Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah
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