K.C.

“And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical word for a gradual death of tribes and Indians, a clinical killing, designed by psychopaths calling themselves politicians.”
― Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

“The word genocide is clinical, overly general, bloodless, and dehumanizing.”
― Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

“All those countries that ended World War II by saying never again turned their backs.”
― Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

“It’s worse when they know what they want and they’re hungry for it, white men in this country, they come to take everything, even themselves, they have taken so much they have lost themselves in the taking, and what will be left of such a nation once they are done?”
― Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars