"We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life ..."

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Source : Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.99, Open Road Media

Paula Gunn Allen

#Land Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.”
“all right buddah gets a backstage pass but all his friends have to pay”
“Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.”
“I'd say that my identity is really a culinary identity, so the way I relate to my national heritage is through its cuisine.”
“Being single is not easy. But neither is being married. They are just difficult in different ways as God uses everything in our life to make us more like Jesus, who happened to live a perfect life while single.”
“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
“The lack of affordable, quality child care is a ticking time bomb.”
“Madhouses are houses made on purpose to cause suffering . . . I cannot stand any longer the screams of these creatures.”

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