Michael Dorris famous quotes

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I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a certain amount of humility and respect. If it were not for the ethnographic material that had been collected by missionaries and anthropologists and so forth, much of past Native American society would no longer be accessible. What I object to is making kitsch of things that are very serious.
-- Michael Dorris

#Humility #Native American #Past
Here are two facts that should not both be true: - There is sufficient food produced in the world every year to feed every human being on the planet. - Nearly 800 million people literally go hungry every day, with more than a third of the earth's population -- 2 billion men and women -- malnourished one way or another, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
-- Michael Dorris

#Men #Years #Organization
To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.
-- Michael Dorris

#Stories #Notoriety
We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled by progress.
-- Michael Dorris

#Progress #Assuming #Currents
My son will forever travel through a moonless night with only the roar of wind for company.... A drowning man is not separated from the lust for air by a bridge of thoughtâ€”he is one with itâ€”and my son, conceived and grown in an ethanol bath, lives each day in the act of drowning. For him there is no shore.
-- Michael Dorris

#Son #Night #Men
At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds
-- Michael Dorris

#Love #Loyalty #Grief
Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance... you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet the sun when it returned.
-- Michael Dorris

#Sleep #Ideas #Grandparent
Don't ask so many questions and they will all be answered.
-- Michael Dorris
I watched the way you watch when you know you want to remember.
-- Michael Dorris

#Memories #Want #Way
Considering that virtually none of the standard fare surrounding Thanksgiving contains an ounce of authenticity, historical accuracy, or cross-cultural perception, why is it so apparently ingrained? Is it necessary to the American psyche to perpetually exploit and debase its victims in order to justify its history?
-- Michael Dorris

#Order #Historical #Perception
Dinner is to a day what dessert is to dinner.
-- Michael Dorris

#Dinner #Dessert #Eating
The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of hard work, honesty, and trust-these are enduring truths glimpsed and judged first through the imagination, first through art.
-- Michael Dorris

#Loyalty #Strong #Art

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