“The white people’s world seeks to destroy community.” She spoke in Spanish, using the word blanco-mestizo. “Once they destroy the community, then it is easy to destroy the individual.”
― We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People
― We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People
“Men lived without cares or labor, eating only acorns, wild fruit, and honey that dripped from trees, drinking the milk of sheep and goats, never growing old, dancing, and laughing much. Death, to them, was no more terrible than sleep. Then her sceptre passed to Uranus …”
― The Centaur
― The Centaur
“I am convinced that joy exists, convinced that the invisible exists more than the visible, and that joy is beyond sorrow, and beauty is beyond horror.”
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“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
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