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

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

They are walking the line between genius and insanity. — Madeleine Roux

I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter. — Michael Caine

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

I came to the flowers; I slept beneath them; this was my leisure. — Yosa Buson

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

Art is affirmation. — N. Scott Momaday

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

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

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

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

Loneliness is an aspect of the land. — N. Scott Momaday

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

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

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

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

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

Anything is bearable as long as you can make a story out of it... — M. Scott Momaday

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

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

I've always loved New York City and the idea of a cultural exchange: the immigrants coming to America. — Mimi Kennedy

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

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

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

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

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

Some of the most amazing human beings on the face of the planet go to sci-fi conventions, although I'm sure a few of them wouldn't admit it. — Richard Hatch

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

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

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

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