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

— 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.

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.

The Sacred Hoop (1986)

Red, the color of the earth and of the East, and the color of what is sacred.

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Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

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