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Democracy by coercion is hardly democracy, in any language, and to some Indians recognizing that fact, the threat of extinction is preferable to the ignominy of enslavement in their own land.

— 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.

The Sacred Hoop (1986)

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

The Sacred Hoop (1986)

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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