American - Writer | 1934 -
I use not casual phrases but imagistic phrases that create a rhythm of natural presence.
Gerald Vizenor
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you desecrate a white grave, you wind up sitting in prison. But desecrate an Indian grave, and you get a Ph.D.
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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.
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The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.
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Naanabozho was the first tribal trickster on the earth.
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There is a sense of motion and a concise, immediate image in haikus and Anishinaabe dream songs.
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Even the earliest cave paintings in France and Spain had natural motion.
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It's so difficult to write in motion and get rid of the past tense, and also to create a sense of impermanence.
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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.
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