James Welch Quotes

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• I wrote a lot in study hall to while away the hours.
• The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took…
• Nobody would take checks from Indians, nobody would give them any credit, and nobody would let them drink in the bars. There was a rudeness,…
• I do believe in the viability of Indian spiritualism.
• I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and…
• I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller.
• I wander around, get the lay of the land and try to imagine what kind of people would have lived there in that historical period.…
• Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He…
• To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful.
• Our literature is in great shape.
• My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that could…
• Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now,…
• I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal.
• In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it's still the best way of looking at the world for Indians -…
• The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe…
• The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were on…

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