Paula Gunn Allen Quotes
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
— Samuel Johnson
You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.
— Barbara Bush
America has amnesia ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters.
— Paula Gunn Allen
For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred.
— Paula Gunn Allen
In America, law substitutes for custom.
— Paula Gunn Allen
Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness that place where one is whole. — Paula Gunn Allen
Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.
— Paula Gunn Allen
As long as we avoid the creative, we are condemned to reaction.
— Paula Gunn Allen
Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.
— George Eliot
I am learning to look at myself differently, to see the scattered remnants of hope and dreams and collect them again.
— Jimmy Santiago Baca
It was one of those almostmoments,
— Callie West
When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.
— Marissa Mayer
Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to forget.
— Paula Gunn Allen
The shadows cannot speak.
— Paula Gunn Allen
I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.
— Joan Didion
I am not especially defined by my sex life, nor complete without it.
— Paula Gunn Allen
True shamans live in a world that is alive with what is to rationalist sight unseen, a world pulsing with intelligence.
— Paula Gunn Allen
I sing a lot about love.
— Dennis Brown
An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or nothing.
— Paula Gunn Allen
I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.
— Garry Winogrand
Check your pockets, my chimney-child.
— Catherynne M Valente
We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life ...
— Paula Gunn Allen
