I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.
Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.
Growth is a painful process.
Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.
I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.
If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Most hard-boiled people are half-baked.
There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.
In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.
A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.
If you count all your assets you always show a profit.
I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.
I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'
So after being with somebody for any number of days like that, you can't help but feel for them. You can't help them, but you certainly can root for them.
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
