Paula Gunn Allen Quotes

• Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.

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  Inspiración, Vida, Paz

  Paula Gunn Allen (1991). “Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• La verdad, la aceptación de la verdad, es una experiencia demoledora. Hace añicos la mortaja del trance cultural. Destruye la petulancia, la arrogancia, la superioridad y la prepotencia. Exige el reconocimiento de la responsabilidad por la naturaleza y la calidad de cada una de nuestras vidas, de nuestra vida interior y de la vida del mundo. La verdad, aceptada interiormente, la verdad que humilla, hace a uno vulnerable. No se puede tener razón, ser santurrón y veraz al mismo tiempo.

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  Truth, Rip, Responsibility

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• The root of oppression is the loss of memory.

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  Memories, Loss, Roots

  "The Sacred Hoop". Book by Paula Gunn Allen, www.nytimes.com. 1986.

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• Healing the self means committing ourselves to a wholehearted willingness to be what and how we are-beings frail and fragile, strong and passionate, neurotic and balanced, diseased and whole, partial and complete, stingy and generous, twisted and straight, storm-tossed and quiescent, bound and free.

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  Strong, Healing, Mean

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• My mother told me stories all the time... And in all of those stories she told me who I was, who I was supposed to be, whom I came from, and who would follow me... That's what she said and what she showed me in the things she did and the way she lives.

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  Mother, Stories, Way

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• En la tradición nativa americana... un hombre, si es un adulto maduro, nutre la vida. Hace rituales que ayudan a que las cosas crezcan, ayuda a criar a los niños y protege a la gente. Toda su vida es hacia el equilibrio y la cooperación. El ideal de la virilidad es el mismo que el de la femineidad. Es autónomo, autodirigido y responsable de la vida espiritual, social y material de todos aquellos con los que convive.

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  Spiritual, Kids, Native American

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• Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves.

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  Needs, World, Tradition

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.94, Open Road Media

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• There are many female gods recognized and honored by the tribes and Nations. Femaleness was highly valued, both respected and feared, and all social institutions reflected this attitude. Even modern sayings, such as the Cheyenne statement that a people is not conquered until the hearts of the women are on the ground, express the Indians understanding that without the power of woman the people will not live, but with it, they will endure and prosper.

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  Inspiring, Attitude, Heart

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.172, Open Road Media

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

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  Ongoing, Sacred, American Indian

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.51, Open Road Media

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

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  Land, Ideas, Understanding

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.99, Open Road Media

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• Some feminist critics debate whether we take our meaning and sense of self from language and in that process become phallocentric ourselves, or if there is a use of language that is, or can be, feminine. Some, like myself, think that language is itself neither male nor female; it is creatively expansive enough to be of use to those who have the wit and art to wrest from it their own significance. Even the dread patriarchs have not found a way to 'own' language any more than they have found a way to 'own' earth (though many seem to believe that both are possible).

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  Arte, Creer, Pensar

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• What the Indians are saying is that they are recognizing the right of wilderness to be wilderness. Wilderness is not an extension of human need or of human justification. It is itself and it is inviolate, itself. This does not mean that, therefore, we become separated from it, because we don't. We stay connected if, once in our lives, we learn exactly what that connection is between our heart, our womb, our mind, and wilderness. And when each of us has her wilderness within her, we can be together in a balanced kind of way. The forever, we have that within us.

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  Nature, Heart, Mean

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native Americans.

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  Dream, Native American, Medicine

  Paula Gunn Allen (1986). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, Boston : Beacon Press

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

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  Believe, Thinking, Justice

  Paula Gunn Allen (1986). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of history, at the continuing impact of colonization, and at the biting knowledge that living as an exile in one's own land necessitates. . . . Certainly the time frame we presently inhabit has much that is shabby and tricky to offer; and much that needs to be treated with laughter and ironic humor.

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  Laughter, Land, Impact

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• As long as we avoid the creative, we are condemned to reaction.

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  Creativity, Long, Creative

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• I am not especially defined by my sex life, nor complete without it.

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  Sex, Defined

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• It's a little-known linguistic curiosity that the name Jehovah or Jaweh is the same name as Eve; Havva, the counterpart name in Farsi, the language spoken by the Persians, means either Jaweh or Eve.

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  God, Mean, Names

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• The shadows cannot speak.

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  Shadow, Speak

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• ... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters.

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  Memories, Passion, Loss

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• Breath is life, and the intermingling of breaths is the purpose of good living. This is in essence the great principle on which all productive living must rest, for relationships among all the beings of the universe must be fulfilled; in this way each individual life may also be fulfilled.

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  Essence, May, Way

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.50, Open Road Media

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• The hoop dancer dances within what encircles him, demonstrating how the people live in motion within the circling spirals of time and space. They are no more limited than water and sky. At green corn dance time, water and sky come together, in Indian time, to make rain.

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  Rain, Space, Sky

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.124, Open Road Media

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• Los curanderos son verdaderos ciudadanos de dos mundos, y los que siguen caminando por la senda del poder de la medicina aprenden a mantener el equilibrio tanto en el mundo ordinario como en el no ordinario.

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  Medicine, Two Worlds, Ordinary World

  Paula Gunn Allen (1991). “Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free to emote over us, to re-create us in their history-based understanding, and dismiss our present lives as archaic and irrelevant to the times.

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  Understanding, Used, Present Life

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.125, Open Road Media

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• We are the women of daylight; of clocks and steel foundries, of drugstores and streetlights, of superhighways that slice our days in two. Our dreams are pale memories of themselves, and nagging doubt is the false measure of our days.

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  Dream, Memories, Two

  Paula Gunn Allen (1997). “Life is a Fatal Disease: Collected Poems 1962-1995”

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