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> [We've reached a point where we are not a very empathetic people, and art without empathy is art without an audience. My basic viewpoint is that without art we're alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamake-highwater/we-ve-reached-a-point-where-we-are-not-a-very-empathetic-people-and/)

[Jamake Highwater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamake-highwater/)

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## More by Jamake Highwater

> [“I have spent most of my adult life in a ghetto among countless other outsiders who have also learned how to talk through the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamake-highwater/i-have-spent-most-of-my-adult-life-in-a-ghetto-among-countless-other/)

[Jamake Highwater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamake-highwater/)

> [The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamake-highwater/the-story-of-dance-in-the-western-world-is-as-much-an-alternative/)

[Jamake Highwater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamake-highwater/)

> [“The wall that separates insiders from outsiders is not born of human nature but methodically built, brick by brick, by tribal convention. The "wall"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamake-highwater/the-wall-that-separates-insiders-from-outsiders-is-not-born-of-human/)

[Jamake Highwater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamake-highwater/)

> [Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamake-highwater/dance-in-this-century-has-remained-primarily-a-personal-ritual/)

[Jamake Highwater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamake-highwater/)

> [At the root of all the various manifestations of dancing lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamake-highwater/at-the-root-of-all-the-various-manifestations-of-dancing-lies-the/)

[Jamake Highwater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamake-highwater/)

> [What dance achieves, what play and sex achieve are the same thing that poetry achieves. They transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamake-highwater/what-dance-achieves-what-play-and-sex-achieve-are-the-same-thing-that/)

[Jamake Highwater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamake-highwater/)

> [For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamake-highwater/for-indians-images-are-a-means-of-celebrating-mystery-and-not-a/)

[Jamake Highwater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamake-highwater/)

> [Some of the most popular discos in America and Europe were started as gay establishments, which began to open their doors to anyone who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamake-highwater/some-of-the-most-popular-discos-in-america-and-europe-were-started-as/)

[Jamake Highwater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamake-highwater/)

> [In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamake-highwater/in-the-new-hebrides-any-dancer-making-a-mistake-was-assaulted-wounded/)

[Jamake Highwater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamake-highwater/)

> [The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine of their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamake-highwater/the-nobility-danced-for-the-sake-of-social-grace-to-exhibit-their/)

[Jamake Highwater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamake-highwater/)

> [We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a social contrivance,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamake-highwater/we-often-take-for-granted-the-notion-that-some-people-are-insiders/)

[Jamake Highwater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamake-highwater/)

> [Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamake-highwater/art-is-a-staple-of-mankind-so-urgent-so-utterly-linked-with-the-pulse/)

[Jamake Highwater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamake-highwater/)

> [For the Indian,dance is a personal form of prayer. When the Eagle Dancer puts on his costume,when he begins to dance to the music,he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamake-highwater/for-the-indian-dance-is-a-personal-form-of-prayer-when-the-eagle/)

[Jamake Highwater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamake-highwater/)

> [“Not everyone has a voice. Many outsiders cannot speak through walls, and, as a consequence, they become silent and invisible. Some give up their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamake-highwater/not-everyone-has-a-voice-many-outsiders-cannot-speak-through-walls/)

[Jamake Highwater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamake-highwater/)

> [“People who exist at the margins of society are very much like Alice in Wonderland. They are not required to make the tough decision…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamake-highwater/people-who-exist-at-the-margins-of-society-are-very-much-like-alice/)

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