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Chrystos
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“Maybe people have become so stupid as a result of having too many machines / The company we keep.”
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“We have become as poisoned as the eagle's eggshell.”
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“To survive we must begin to know sacredness / The pace which most of us live prevents this.”
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“Those hills hold nothing now / Mostly leveled / Without deer, without puma, without pheasant, without blue-bellied lizards, without quail, without ancient oaks / Lawns instead / Deeply disgusted by lawns / Stupid flat green crew cuts / Nothing for anybody to eat.”
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“However there is no shame when one is foolish with a tree / No bird ever called me crazy / No rock scorns me as a whore / The earth means exactly what it says / The wind is without flattery or lust / Greed is balanced by the hunger of all / So I embrace anew, as my childhood spirit did, the whispers of a world without words.”
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“Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.”
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“Our sacred beliefs have been made pencils / names of cities / gas stations / My knee is wounded so badly that I limp constantly / Anger is my crutch / I hold myself upright with it / My knee is wounded / see / How I Am Still Walking. ”
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“They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our stories in locked rare book libraries / our dances on film / The only part of us they can't steal / is what we know.”
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“The grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree.”
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“Depression is a very sensible reaction to just about everything we live in now.”
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“How many are dying / from the taxes I've paid / with my tired hands?”
Chrystos, Menominee-U.S. writer, artist, Menominee rights activist
(1946)