The Rez Quotes

#1. I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

Sherman Alexie

#2. To understand American Indians is to understand America. This is the story of the paradoxically least and most American place in the twenty-first century. Welcome to the Rez.

David Treuer

#3. I am a zero on the rez. And if you subtract zero from zero, you still have zero. So what's the point of subtracting when the answer is always the same?

Sherman Alexie

#4. I don't speak Otter, ya dumbass. What are ya waitin' for? Get over here so we can get back to the rez. Unless I'm talkin' to a real otter, in which case I'm the dumbass and you can just stay over there. I

Kevin Hearne

#5. In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'

Sherman Alexie

#6. true love, which has no opposite because it arises from beyond the mind.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. Because happiness was temporal, individual, in exceptional circumstances twofold, on extremely rare occasions tripartite, and never collective, civic.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#8. The morning of the game, I'd woken up in my rez house so my dad could drive me the twenty-two miles to Reardan, so I could get on the team bus for the ride back to the reservation.
Crazy.

Sherman Alexie

#9. I'm just not that comfortable writing so much about myself.

Mike Wallace

#10. The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous creatures.

Adolf Hitler

#11. Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.

John Wayne

#12. There is someone looking through the befogged glass, he opens the glass door of the bar, everything is misty, inside, too, as if seen by nearsighted eyes, or eyes irritated by coal dust.

Italo Calvino

#13. The workroom radio, tuned to FM 88.9, emitted Muddy Waters's throaty warbling. A rez station, WOJB did its best to hit every level of musical taste. Absolute bite-ya-in-the-ass blues was aired only during the wee hours.

Tracker's favorite time and music.

Mardi Oakley Medawar

#14. A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#15. You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. Having something to fight for will make us stronger than anything they can throw at us.

Heather Anastasiu

#17. I do believe in the power of prayer.

Geraldine Ferraro