19 Quotes by Gerald Vizenor

Confucius would give his seat to an old woman. Communist cadres, on the other hand, took the best seats and called it a cultural revolution.

Even the earliest cave paintings in France and Spain had natural motion.

I use not casual phrases but imagistic phrases that create a rhythm of natural presence.

If you desecrate a white grave, you wind up sitting in prison. But desecrate an Indian grave, and you get a Ph.D.

It's so difficult to write in motion and get rid of the past tense, and also to create a sense of impermanence.

Mixed-bloods loosen the seams in the shrouds of identities.

Naanabozho was the first tribal trickster on the earth.

The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.

The great liberation of imaginative writing is that you're not held back by the facts.