I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.
The path to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on your path, so that you may never experience the humility that the power of the American government has reduced me to. This is the wish of a man who, in his native forests, was once as proud and bold as yourself.
The white men despise the Indians, and drive them from their homes. But the Indians are not deceitful. The white men speak bad of the Indian, and look at him spitefully. But the Indian does not tell lies; Indians do not steal. An Indian, who is as bad as the white men, could not live in our nation; he would be put to death, and eat up by the wolves.
My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon. So long as they occupy and cultivate it, they have a right to the soil. Nothing can be sold but such things as can be carried away
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one. ' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed. '
Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.
It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side.
There is a correlation between evil. There is a primary evil that comes directly from the Devil. Even though all evil stems from the Devil, the Devil sometimes interacts with people in the physical world and the spiritual world and sometimes there's just plain evil that people do to one another. And I've seen plenty of that over the course of 20 years.
I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.