Dee Brown famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to.
-- Dee Brown

#Moving #White #People
To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.
-- Dee Brown

#Air #Water #Bird
Nothing lives long Only the earth and mountains
-- Dee Brown

#Long #Mountain #Earth
You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted
-- Dee Brown

#Giving Up #Book #Don't Give Up
The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.
-- Dee Brown

#America #East #Earth
The librarians know the secrets, not the historians
-- Dee Brown

#Book #Secret #Library
Treat all men alike.... give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. Let me be a free man...free to travel... free to stop...free to work...free to choose my own teachers...free to follow the religion of my Fathers...free to think and talk and act for myself.
-- Dee Brown

#Running #Teacher #Father
I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.
-- Dee Brown

#Dog #Thinking #Use

Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
Don't miss out on the love of a good women,son. No matter what that old man of yours tells you,love is real.I'd have never had the success in my life without the women right there.She's been my backbone.She's been my reason for everything I've ever done.One day your drive to make a name for yourself will begin to drift away. It won't be that important anymore.But when you're doing it for someone else, someone you would move heaven and earth for then you never lose the desire to succeed.I can't imagine this world without her in it.I don't ever want to.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.
Nowadays people always say, 'How come he's doing such young shows?' But they never mention 'The Mod Squad'. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.
It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?
Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.

Dee Brown famous quotes

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