26 Quotes by Forrest Carter

You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.

Granma's name was Bonnie Bee. I knew that when I heard him late at night say, 'I kin ye, Bonnie Bee,' he was saying, 'I love ye,' for the feeling was in the words.

It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.

He loves deep... hates hard, ever'thing's that killed what he loves. All great warriors are sich men.

Indian believes they ain't but two sins... bein a coward... and turnin agin yer own kind.

Then sometime there in late March, after the Indian violets had come, we would be gathering on the mountain and the wind, raw and mean, would change for just a second. It would touch your face as soft as a feather. It had an earth smell. You knew springtime was on the way.The next day, or the next (you would commence to hold your face out for the feel), the soft touch would come again. It would last a little longer and be sweeter and smell stronger.

Everything growing wild is a hundred times stronger than tame things.

Well, Mr. Carpetbagger. We got somethin’ in this territory called the Missouri boat ride. -Josey Wales.

Granpa said if there was less words, there wouldn’t be as much trouble in the world. He said privately to me that there was always some damn fool making up a word that served no purpose except to cause trouble.