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Zebulon Pike

"They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy."

Source : Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Thomas Rees (1811). “Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of that River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-eastern Provinces of New Spain ; Performed in the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.186

Zebulon Pike

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“The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as the one country where it is unnecessary to have a past, what is a luxury for the nation as a whole becomes a prime social necessity for the Negro. For him, a group tradition must supply compensation for persecution, and pride of race the antidote for prejudice. History must restore what slavery took away, for it is the social damage of slavery that the present generation must repair and offset.”
“It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.”
“The big turn in the late 90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. I was fairly sure I was going to be an actor for the rest of my life, which I think calmed me down.”
“It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.”
“So what? You're another person, so of course you look different. What do you need to be ashamed for?”
“My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing . You gotta shake your tail feathers.”
“I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to you and everybody else and for me this is always the conflict between an attraction for the Holy and the disbelief in it that we breathe in with the air of the times.”

"They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy."

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