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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…
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At the root of all the various manifestations of dancing lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states…
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The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the…
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Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.
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In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch…
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The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine…
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Some of the most popular discos in America and Europe were started as gay establishments, which began to open their doors to…
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White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries…
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Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a…
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For the Indian,dance is a personal form of prayer. When the Eagle Dancer puts on his costume,when he begins to dance to…
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We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a…
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For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it
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For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and…
— John F. Kennedy
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What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are…
— Russell Means
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There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this…
— Rush Limbaugh
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So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had…
— Sarah Zettel
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A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are…
— Ezra Stiles
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I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as…
— Ward Churchill
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Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express…
— Gregory Colbert
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Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name.
— Jamake Highwater
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The American Indians, the ancient Indians would say, the metaphysical ones would say: "Power binds us together." Power, for a while, makes…
— Frederick Lenz
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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven't been addressed, and I'd like…
— Al Franken
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I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.
— Loretta Lynn
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Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they…
— Russell Means
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