White Men

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    If you tie a horse to a stake, do you expect he will grow fat? If you pen an Indian up on a small spot of earth, and compel him to stay there, he will not be contented, nor will he grow and prosper. I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They can not tell me.
    Chief Joseph (c. 1840–1904)

    The man whose heart is as warm as a hanky soaked in ethyl chloride.
    —Edmund White (b. 1940)

    Let me have men about me that are fat,
    Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.
    Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
    He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)