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“There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally.”

“But my experience in this world has been that the people who believe themselves to be white are obsessed with the politics of personal exoneration.”

“The robbery of time is not measured in lifespans but in moments.”

“The page of history teems with woman’s wrongs, and it is wet with woman’s tears.”

“A nation has borders but the edges of an empire are frayed.”

“When things are simple, there’s not a lot to keep in mind.”

“"You're thinking crazy, he tells himself, just to hear it out loud. He's right, though. These are the kind of wrong thoughts people have who are spending too much time alone. They start unpacking vast cosmic bullshit from gum wrappers, and then they chew it up, blow a bubble, ride that bubble up into some even stupider place.”

“While most of us do not want to be morbid and morose around the clock, there are disadvantages to being completely alienated from the realities of sickness, death, and dying. It can hinder our ability to empathize and be compassionate people, and both the dying and the bereaved can feel invisible in a society that likes to pretend grief and death don't exist.”

“I want to walk through this doorway

but without all those ghosts on the edge,

I want them to stay here.

I want them to go on without me.

I want them to burn in the water.”

“The yearning for a dimly remembered time of wholeness, when humans lived in equivalence with all of nature, was found in their highest rituals as well as in the activities of their everyday lives.”

“Now go back to the country from whence you came. We do not want your presents, and we do not want you to come into our country." — CURLY CHIEF, Pawnee

“The eastern Sioux, a canoeing people in the 1760s, were a mounted people thirty years later. The rapid spread of the horse throughout the Plains caused the flowering of an entirely new Indian way of life characterized by the Appaloosa-riding, war-bonneted warrior who would symbolize American Indianism around the world.”

“Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.” Black Elk, Oglala Sioux

“The truth is, you can be the the good guy—or you can be the guy who saved the world. They’re not always the same guy.”

“The worst thoughts, the ugliest, most terrifying thoughts always find you, always work their way into your brain.”

“No one lives far from some geographical area where some form of ritualistic Satanism is practiced. Ritualistic Satanism and its inevitable consequence, demonic Possession, are now part and parcel of the atmosphere of life in America.”

Welp, I honestly don’t know what I was expecting. This one is on me.

“There was nothing to do but wait for the next sunset, when the sky would ring like bronze.”

“Is there something so innocent in the recitation of names that God is pleased?”