Balanced Quote by Paula Gunn Allen

My mother told me stories all the time... And in all of those stories she told me who I was, who I was supposed…

— Paula Gunn Allen

Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of…

— Paula Gunn Allen

Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation.

— Paula Gunn Allen

Breath is life, and the intermingling of breaths is the purpose of good living. This is in essence the great principle on which all…

— Paula Gunn Allen

The hoop dancer dances within what encircles him, demonstrating how the people live in motion within the circling spirals of time and space. They…

— Paula Gunn Allen

Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance…

— Paula Gunn Allen

The shadows cannot speak.

— Paula Gunn Allen

Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.

— Paula Gunn Allen

For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred.

— Paula Gunn Allen

Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to forget.

— Paula Gunn Allen

The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free…

— Paula Gunn Allen

We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life.

— Paula Gunn Allen