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N. Scott Momaday quotes: I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.

I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.

N. Scott Momaday quotes: A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.

N. Scott Momaday quotes: Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

N. Scott Momaday quotes: For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.

For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.

N. Scott Momaday quotes: As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

N. Scott Momaday quotes: Art is affirmation.

Art is affirmation.

N. Scott Momaday quotes: I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.

I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.

N. Scott Momaday quotes: Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

N. Scott Momaday quotes: Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.

Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.

N. Scott Momaday quotes: Loneliness is an aspect of the land.

Loneliness is an aspect of the land.

N. Scott Momaday quotes: Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.

Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.

N. Scott Momaday quotes: It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.

It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.

N. Scott Momaday quotes: My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

N. Scott Momaday quotes: He wondered what his sorrow was and could not remember.

He wondered what his sorrow was and could not remember.

N. Scott Momaday quotes: I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.

I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.

N. Scott Momaday quotes: In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

N. Scott Momaday quotes: There was a man who killed a buffalo bull to no purpose, only he wanted the blood on his hands.

There was a man who killed a buffalo bull to no purpose, only he wanted the blood on his hands.

N. Scott Momaday quotes: If coupling should but make us whole / And of the selfsame mind and soul, / Then couple let's in celebration; / We have contained the population.

If coupling should but make us whole / And of the selfsame mind and soul, / Then couple let's in celebration; / We have contained the population.

N. Scott Momaday quotes: If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.

If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.

N. Scott Momaday quotes: He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.

He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.

N. Scott Momaday quotes: To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.

To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.

N. Scott Momaday quotes: It was not an exclamation so much, I think, as it was a warding off, an exertion of language upon ignorance and disorder.

It was not an exclamation so much, I think, as it was a warding off, an exertion of language upon ignorance and disorder.

N. Scott Momaday quotes: The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see.

The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see.

N. Scott Momaday quotes: The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

N. Scott Momaday quotes: Her name is Ago, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America.

Her name is Ago, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America.

N. Scott Momaday quotes: Sill. Their horses and weapons were confiscated, and they were imprisoned. In a field just

Sill. Their horses and weapons were confiscated, and they were imprisoned. In a field just