"It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps."

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Source : Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.192, Random House

Sherman Alexie

#Moving Quotes #Were Meant To Be Quotes #Forgotten Quotes

“If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.”
“Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.”
“Even in its darkness, it has this picturesque element. It's something about the human condition. It's not the water itself-it's humanity's relationship to water, because that’s almost a human need, that water be a positive force.”
“I always had ambition. I always knew I was going to go to college. I could party and do that stuff, but I always got straight A's and a 4.0 and all that.”
“dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.”
“It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time.”
“I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I'm not an education expert, and frankly I don't want to make education decisions for our state. But I am experienced at successfully managing organizations, and putting people on a path where they can succeed.”

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