“We can use science to translate ancestral wisdom into a modern context,” and highlight a way to address environmental justice issues.

“As human beings, we want a sense of agency and choice around our own lives. We experience that internal distress as we see it getting taken away."

Sometimes we look down on people who don't always say the right things, instead of checking whether they're doing the right things.

Rue is at once honest and deceptive, manipulative and vulnerable, and gives new meaning to the trope.