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"It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time."
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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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"I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts."


"If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it."


"Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain."


"I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!"


"Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family."


"I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at the time. It was very exciting to suddenly recall what I was feeling at the time."


"Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?"
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