Paula Gunn Allen Quotes
Laguna Pueblo and Sioux poet, scholar and novelist, author of 'The Sacred Hoop' (1986).
25 quotesAbout Paula Gunn Allen on Wikipedia
“Walden is the self-proclaimed triumph of the isolated, superior individual.”
“Americans divide Indians into two categories: the noble savage and the howling savage.”
“You can take the Indian out of Indian country but you can't take the Indian out of the Indian.”
“To address a person as 'mother' is to pay the highest ritual respect.”
“The tribes see women variously, but they do not question the power of femininity.”
“My mother told me stories all the time, though I often did not recognize them as that.”
“Myth functions as an affirmation of self that transcends the temporal.”
“No people is broken until the heart of its women is on the ground.”
“In the universe of power, all transactions proceed in more directions than one.”
“Disorder brings about a series of adjustments whose purpose is to reestablish harmony.”
