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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

I suppose I do have an interest in stories that show complexity. — Sarah Gavron

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

We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely. — David Mitchell

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

Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation. — Paula Gunn Allen