Vizenor Gerald Quotes

#1. Confucius would give his seat to an old woman. Communist cadres, on the other hand, took the best seats and called it a cultural revolution.

Gerald Vizenor

#2. Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.

Gerald Vizenor

#3. Naanabozho was the first tribal trickster on the earth.

Gerald Vizenor

#4. The idea of victimage is a dreadful thing, a product of a safe middle-class perspective. What people who are not safe develop is a tragic wisdom, a wisdom that embraces contradiction and seeks a sense of balance rather than going to extremes.

Gerald Vizenor

#5. The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.

Gerald Vizenor

#6. If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.

Murray Warmath

#7. Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Oscar Wilde

#8. It is never a crime to love someone.

Malinda Lo

#9. Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

Brooks Atkinson

#10. Indians are usually seen as capsulized: limited to one environment, with the illusion of stability in that environment. But Indians have been engaged all over the world for centuries, in Europe, even in Asia.

Gerald Vizenor

#11. The single best thing we can do is expand competition. Let people purchase health insurance across state lines. If you want to expand access, what you want to do is increase choices and drive down cost.

Ted Cruz

#12. Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they're passionate about, something that's challenging and worthwhile.

Ellen Ochoa

#13. I use not casual phrases but imagistic phrases that create a rhythm of natural presence.

Gerald Vizenor

#14. It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.

Kate Christensen

#15. W. P. Kinsella, who was born on a farm near Edmunton, Alberta, has earned wide recognition for his wild imagination and rash humor as a writer.

Gerald Vizenor

#16. I'm a visual thinker. With almost all of my writing, I start with something that's visual: either the way someone says something that is visual or an actual visual description of a scene and color.

Gerald Vizenor

#17. The great liberation of imaginative writing is that you're not held back by the facts.

Gerald Vizenor

#18. It's so difficult to write in motion and get rid of the past tense, and also to create a sense of impermanence.

Gerald Vizenor

#19. There is a sense of motion and a concise, immediate image in haikus and Anishinaabe dream songs.

Gerald Vizenor

#20. I do not want to die being known for doing baby mama DNA tests on my show.

Ricki Lake

#21. Trickster stories are pleasurable, contradictory, annoying, abrasive. They're powerful, transformational acts of liberation because they are not nailed down to the real, to the representation of something in the world.

Gerald Vizenor

#22. Even the earliest cave paintings in France and Spain had natural motion.

Gerald Vizenor

#23. If you desecrate a white grave, you wind up sitting in prison. But desecrate an Indian grave, and you get a Ph.D.

Gerald Vizenor

#24. There are 13 stories in 'The Fencepost Chronicles' about corrupt tribal leaders, trouble on the reserve, survival schemes, and communal drinking.

Gerald Vizenor

#25. After I closed the door behind us, bringing this Saturday night to a three-way kind of sitch - and not the good kind - I ran a hand through my hair. Uh,

Cindi Madsen

#26. Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.

Gerald Vizenor

#27. Mixed-bloods loosen the seams in the shrouds of identities.

Gerald Vizenor