58 Quotes by Wilma Mankiller

Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo.

Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it – and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo.

I learned a long time ago that I can’t control the challenges the creator sends my way, but I can control the way I think about them and deal with them.

Every single person has leadership ability. Some step up and take them. Some don’t. My answer was to step up and lead.

I don’t think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.

We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we’re going. And get the job done.

I’ve run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

It is the women who are responsible for bringing along the next generation to carry the culture forward.

We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite everything that’s happened to us since we fed the Pilgrims, we still have our language, our culture, our distinct social system. Even in a nuclear age, we still have a tribal people.