"You've got to invite Native Americans to the table, and Asians, and Chicanos. You cannot keep us in the back room anymore and give us notations on paper saying this is what you deserve. You have to invite us to the table because America is ours, too."

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Source : Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#Native American Quotes #Deserve You Quotes #Giving Quotes

“We'll show the fire how to burn.”

Source : Song: The Fire
“Im the bestest/on a bad day I spit asbestos”
“So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.”

Source : "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.
“The heart is a river. The act of writing is the moving water that holds the banks apart, keeps the muscle of words flexing so that the reader can be carried along by this movement. To be given space and the chance to leave one's earthly world. Is there any greater freedom than this?”
“I'm not afraid of a world with less consumerism, less 'stuff' and no economic growth. I'm far more frightened of the opposite”
“Really anything can happen at any time and we are very addicted to comfort. Life is just not always comfortable.”
“For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.”

Source : Mervyn Peake (2007). “Gormenghast”, p.72, The Overlook Press
“For Jesus, who lived so lightly on this earth, He didnâ€™t even have a place to lay His head. I want so deeply to be like You.”

Source : Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.5, B&H Publishing Group

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