Quotes by James Welch - Page 1

Our literature is in great shape.
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Literature
Shape
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I wrote a lot in study hall to while away the hours.
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Study
Hall
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I do believe in the viability of Indian spiritualism.
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I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller.
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To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful.
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Grateful
Organization
Totally
Award
Receive
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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.
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Insulting
Labels
Work Your People
Writers
Ethnic
Work People Your
Regional
Restrictions
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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 them and printed all three in the same issue.
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Printed
Three
Bar
Fluke
Issue
New Yorker
Sent
Title
Took
Yorker
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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 who happened to write about Indians.
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Indian
Object
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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 - better than any organized religion in this country.
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Religion
Best Way
Country
Indian
Lost
Organized
Organized Religion
Spirituality
Best World Better
Looking
Societies
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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 the fringes of society themselves.
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Attitude
Reservations
Wealthy
Indians
Superior
Toward
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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 also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.
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Imagination
Desire
Montana
Permission
Taught
Writer
Ear
Gave
Richard
Hugo
Northern
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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 have been set anywhere. A lot of the poems were just exercises for myself.
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Location
Series
Anywhere
Exercises
Images
Just Kind
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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, they seem to realize that they're the only ones who can save themselves.
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Defeated
Indian
Outsiders
Fix
Indian People
Save
Somehow
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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. What would they eat? What kind of clothing would they wear? How did they shelter themselves? How did they get around?
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Wander
Clothing
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Lay
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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 has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions.
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College
Community College
Economic
Fine
Industry
Missing
Reservations
Teach
Since
Attract
Piece
Spiritually
Traditions
Tribe
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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, a brusqueness, with which the Indians were treated constantly. At a very young age, that had entered my consciousness.
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Bars
Checks
Consciousness
Credit
Drink
Rudeness
Treated
Young Age
Entered
Indians
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