Famous quotes containing the words indian and/or literature:
“The Indian resists curiosity by a stony silence. The Negro offers a featherbed resistance. That is, we let the probe enter, but it never comes out. It gets smothered under a lot of laughter and pleasantries.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.”
—Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951)