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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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"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"
"Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it."
"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."
"I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green."
"What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches."
"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle."
"The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them."
"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."
"Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun."
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