Perceived Indian Aggression

Famous quotes containing the words perceived, indian and/or aggression:

    “to fasten into order enlarging grasps of disorder, widening
    scope, but enjoying the freedom that
    Scope eludes my grasp, that there is no finality of vision,
    that I have perceived nothing completely,
    that tomorrow a new walk is a new walk.”
    —Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)

    “Sabra Cravat: I should think you’d be ashamed of yourself. Mooning around with an Indian hired girl.
    Cim Cravat: Ruby isn’t an Indian hired girl. She’s the daughter of an Osage chief.
    Sabra Cravat: Osage, fiddlesticks.
    Cim Cravat: She’s just as important in the Osage nation as, well, as Alice Roosevelt is in Washington.”
    —Howard Estabrook (1884–1978)

    “In any case, raw aggression is thought to be the peculiar province of men, as nurturing is the peculiar province of women.... The psychologist Erik Erikson discovered that, while little girls playing with blocks generally create pleasant interior spaces and attractive entrances, little boys are inclined to pile up the blocks as high as they can and then watch them fall down: “the contemplation of ruins,” Erikson observes, “is a masculine specialty.””
    —Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)