"An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or nothing."

-- Paula Gunn Allen

#Civilization Quotes #Mind Quotes #Littles Quotes

“And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end.”
“I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.”
“I thank the Prime Minister for his remarks about me. Debating with him at the Dispatch Box has been exciting, fascinating, fun, an enormous challenge and, from my point of view, wholly unproductive in every sense. I am told that in my time at the Dispatch Box I have asked the Prime Minister 1,118 direct questions, but no one has counted the direct answers-it may not take long.”
“I'm not involved in tennis but committed.”
“Jeb Bush admitted that he smoked a notable amount of pot in school. He said, 'You would too if your parents had named you 'Jeb.'”
“Do good in the name of children. Do good in the name of public health.”

Source : "The Vaccine War". "Frontline", www.pbs.org. April 27, 2010.
“Fire had an almost magical quality that suggested anything was possible. Early on, man even believed that fire was a god that had to be fed with animal sacrifices in order to burn brightly. Today we have evolved a long way from this ridiculous notion of a 'fire god' and now rightfully understand God to be a bearded being who lives amongst the clouds and hates Jews and homosexuals.”
“I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.”

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