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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."
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"Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission."


"While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice."


"The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before."


"I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words."


"But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist."


"I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings."


"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event."
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