"The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand."

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Source : Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.15, Courier Corporation

Charles Alexander Eastman

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“I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in consequence, are so thronged that the poor creatures are forced to work for the merest pittance.”

Source : Lillie Devereux Blake (1874). “Fettered for Life, Or, Lord and Master: A Story of To-day”, p.53
“You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.”
“To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.”
“When you aren't sure what it is you hate or why you even hate it, it's hard to hold onto the details...you just hold on to the feelings.”
“It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her.”
“Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?”
“Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me.”
“When I hear the word 'documentary,' I don't think certain things should be left out. You've got to keep it 100 percent as much as you can, unless your group has a meeting beforehand and says, 'Yo - don't say this, 'cause boom, boom, boom.' Other than that, it's a documentary so let's document, you know what I mean?”

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