Native American Words

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    “...I have ... been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn’t it extraordinary that sometimes the most offended have not seen others being offended?”
    —Judith Jamison (b. 1943)

    “The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters of theatre, writing, and painting. While the American Mercury and the new Ford continue to spread a thin varnish of Ritz over the whole United States there is a certain virtue in being unfashionable.”
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

    “Your words smell of corpses.”
    —Georg Büchner (1813–1837)