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We are the dead and the witnesses to death of hundreds of thousands of our people, of the water, the air, the animals and forests and grassy lands that sustained them and us not so very long ago.

— Paula Gunn Allen The Sacred Hoop (1986)

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Black, the color of the West, of truth, revelation, and abomination.

It’s hard to see the forest when you’re a tree.

The power of imagination, of image, which is the fundamental power of literature, is the power to determine a people’s fate.

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All tales are born in the mind of Spider Woman, and all creation exists as a result of her naming.

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One’s emotions are one’s own; to suggest that others should imitate them is to impose on the personal integrity of others.

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