The Inconvenient Indian Quotes

#1. Fascinating, often hilarious, always devastatingly truthful, The Inconvenient Indian is destined to become a classic of historical narrative. For those who wish to better understand Native peoples, it is a must read. For those who don't wish to understand, it is even more so.

Joseph Boyden

#2. Jesus, life has its share of honorable thrills if one but keeps one's eyes open!

J.D. Salinger

#3. A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.

James Franco

#4. I'm one of the few Black writers, or African American writers, who managed to work my way through the system so that it has allowed me to speak in a kind of free way. But most African American writers don't have that. They don't have that opportunity, they don't have that.

James McBride

#5. I am not a sentimental or superstitious person, so I don't have any pre-performance rituals. I am a very practical woman. After a performance I am always hopeful that I will lure someone home for a ritual of a more personal nature.

Vaginal Davis

#6. To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. I've assembled a pretty good collection of mid-'70s New York punk classics on tape: Dead Boys, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Heartbreakers, Ramones, Television and so on,

Anthony Bourdain

#8. The more grateful we feel, the more things we receive to feel grateful for. The more loved we feel, the more love we receive. The more beautiful we feel, the more attractive we become.

Denise Coates

#9. Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel ... the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

Susan B. Anthony

#10. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

Muddy Waters

#11. It was early still, the sky white, nude.

Elizabeth Brundage

#12. But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.

Sallust

#13. With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.

Patrick Whitesell

#14. Most interesting things in our lives happens in our absence

Salman Rushdie