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“You all know from past experiences that the white man only sees the bad that our people do to them. They are blind to their own indiscretions.”
― Violetta Botzet Luetgers, Suland

“As she traveled down the lane between the rows of parked cars, she noticed a conspicuous absence of new or expensive vehicles. Teaching didn't pay well enough for any luxuries, and Hannah thought that was a shame. There was something really wrong with  the system when a teacher could make more money flipping burgers at a fast-food chain.”
― Joanne Fluke, Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder

“Today I am an unemployed writer living as a recluse in the great Northwoods.”
― Daniel J. Rice, The UnPeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness

“...Minnesota, Wisconsin, all around there... has the kind of women I liked when I was younger. Pale-skinned and blue-eyed, hair so fair it's almost white, wine-colored lips, and round, full breasts with the veins running through them like a good cheese.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Everyone's favorite supper is a gluey carbohydrate-rich concoction known simply as "hotdish" and served in a community Pyrex.”
― Diablo Cody, Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper

“Two- to four-finger waves are commonly used between fast-moving vehicles, but the nicely executed single-finger wave is a thing of beauty and a joy forever. To me, it perfectly sums up the Minnesota character that I love so much. The finger wave from the steering wheel: when you get it right, you'll know you've arrived and you don't ever have to leave again if you don't want to.”
― Howard Mohr, How to Talk Minnesotan: A Visitor's Guide

“My own life would make a pretty dull story, I think, and I envy him as I drive to work on a cold Minnesota morning across the Mississippi River with its coal barges still struggling upstream like so many of us nowadays.”
― Garrison Keillor

“The Minneapolis City Hall is not a pretty building. A pile of red granite, a sullen nineteenth-century Romanesque lump, it squats amid the glittering glass-and-steel towers of the loop like a wart poking through a diamond necklace.”
― John Sandford, Phantom Prey

“Father and son grinned at each other.
His father took off his hat. His forehead was white, his hair
coppery.
"So how's the rat race, son?"
"Not so bad," Walter said.
His father paused a moment. "Any ... decisions yet?" his
father said.
Walter swallowed. He looked off toward town. "About ..
a major, you mean?" Walter said.
His father waited.
"Well," Walter said. His mouth went dry. He· swallowed
twice. "Well," he said, "I think I'm going to major in English."
His father pursed his lips. He pulled off his work gloves one
finger at a time. "English," he said.
"English," Walter nodded.
His father squinted. "Son, we already know English.”
― Will Weaver, A Gravestone Made of Wheat

“Before America, I was not Black. I was not adrift in a sea of White that I constantly had to come to terms with, against which my very humanity is measured--by Whites, Blacks, the world, and even myself. Black exists only because America is White.”
― Sun Yung Shin, A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota

“Before moving to America, I did not see the world through a "Black" lens...We had doctors, teachers, wealthy men. Indeed, we had successful men of all stripes. We did not have Black doctors, Black businessmen, or any so-called role models. We had people doing things we children knew we could just as easily do when we grew up.”
― Sun Yung Shin, A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota

“Service Restoration Saint Paul believes in strong values and morals which we show throughout the Service Restoration company. We believe if you love what you do, you provide a better service and it shows. Our company provides some of the best services in the restoration industry. We offer 1-hour turn around time and a on call 24/7 for all Emergency restoration service hot line. If you find flood water inside your home or building, give us a call.”
― Service Restoration of Saint Paul, Minnesota

“Oftentimes the faith community historically has been on the wrong side, particularly as it relates to indigenous communities and sovereign nations who we are in relationship with. Today we decided to be on the right side.”
― Curtiss Paul DeYoung

“ARE YOU DUPING FOREIGNERS TO COME OVER HERE?”
― Aaron Clarey

“Happens more than we want to know. There are Indian kids, just like your brother, heck just like me, all over this Valley. Fostered out, adopted out, working their fingers to the bone--heck, many of them not being properly fed so they are nothing but muscle and bone to begin with, thinking that if they just do good enough, maybe, just maybe, someday they will actually belong.

Mostly what I see is once they've been used up--in some cases broken beyond repair--they're thrown away like all the battered farm equipment you see sitting in the back of farmyards, back by the windbreak."

- Cash Blackbear in Girl Gone Missing”
― Marcie R. Rendon, Girl Gone Missing

“But this is the country I know. This Valley. This river. This flat land that goes on forever. The dang wind chill every winter. The wind blowing across this prairie we bend over and walk into. We get used to it. It becomes us. You know, when they sing, 'amber waves of grain,' that tugs at my heart. Still. Those are our wheat fields ...

-Sheriff Wheaton”
― Marcie R. Rendon, Girl Gone Missing

“I would have cried, but my tears would probably freeze and blind me. I didn't know what tears did at these temperatures.”
― Diary Of An Oxygen Thief