“For by nature I am a sort of meeting place of countless streams of ancestral tendency.”
― The Philosophy of Loyalty
― The Philosophy of Loyalty
“The company was taking the oil from our forests and contaminating our water sources. The oil was taken to the cities so that the white people could drive cars and fly planes while Waorani women were degraded in the dusty shadows of the barbed wire, left to beg for water.”
― We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People
― We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People
“I have come to recognize that the gift of expression, whether in speech, or in writing, or in any art at all, is totally and entirely inferior to a certain indescribable genius for life.”
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“human behavior's gro'n so atrocious, that when one calls upon God, it's gen'rally the devil who answers... -?-”
― Evening Edged in Gold
― Evening Edged in Gold
“(Above all, since the ignorant=rabble are encouritcht (not unsystematickly!) to be voting goats) : no government, no=>church< wants >thinking human beings< who will defend themselves; but=rather perfectly=manipulatable duds. — Are We in agreement?”
― Bottom's Dream
― Bottom's Dream
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