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Trickster stories are pleasurable, contradictory, annoying, abrasive. They're powerful, transformational acts of liberation because they are not nailed down to the real, to the representation of something in the world.

~Gerald Vizenor

Topics: Acts Annoying Because Contradictory Down Liberation Nailed Pleasurable Powerful Real Representation Something Stories World

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The idea of victimage is a dreadful thing, a product of a safe middle-class perspective. What people who are not safe develop is a tragic wisdom, a wisdom that embraces contradiction and seeks a sense of balance rather than going to extremes.

~Gerald Vizenor

Topics: Balance Contradiction Develop Dreadful Embraces Extremes Going Idea Middle-Class People Perspective Product Rather Safe Seeks Sense Than Thing Tragic Who Wisdom

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Confucius would give his seat to an old woman. Communist cadres, on the other hand, took the best seats and called it a cultural revolution.

~Gerald Vizenor

Topics: Best Communist Confucius Cultural Give Hand His Old Old Woman Other Revolution Seat Seats Took Woman Would

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Indians are usually seen as capsulized: limited to one environment, with the illusion of stability in that environment. But Indians have been engaged all over the world for centuries, in Europe, even in Asia.

~Gerald Vizenor

Topics: Asia Been Centuries Engaged Environment Europe Even Illusion Indians Limited Over Seen Stability World

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The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.

~Gerald Vizenor

Topics: American English First Japan Native Native American Teacher Western

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Naanabozho was the first tribal trickster on the earth.

~Gerald Vizenor

Topics: Earth First Tribal

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There is a sense of motion and a concise, immediate image in haikus and Anishinaabe dream songs.

~Gerald Vizenor

Topics: Concise Dream Image Immediate Motion Sense Songs

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Even the earliest cave paintings in France and Spain had natural motion.

~Gerald Vizenor

Topics: Cave Earliest Even France Had Motion Natural Paintings Spain

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It's so difficult to write in motion and get rid of the past tense, and also to create a sense of impermanence.

~Gerald Vizenor

Topics: Also Create Difficult Get Motion Past Rid Sense Tense Write

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I use not casual phrases but imagistic phrases that create a rhythm of natural presence.

~Gerald Vizenor

Topics: Casual Create Natural Phrases Presence Rhythm Use

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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