Forrest Carter

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You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.
- Forrest Carter
Collection: People
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Grandma said [...] when you come on something that is good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good spreads out to where no telling it will go.
- Forrest Carter
Collection: Grandma
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Everything growing wild is a hundred times stronger than tame things.
- Forrest Carter
Collection: Stronger
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Indian believes they ain't but two sins... bein a coward... and turnin agin yer own kind.
- Forrest Carter
Collection: Believe
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Granpa said if there was less words, there wouldn't be as much trouble in the world. He said privately to me that there was always some damn fool making up a word that served no purpose except to cause trouble.
- Forrest Carter
Collection: Purpose
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He loves deep... hates hard, ever'thing's that killed what he loves. All great warriors are sich men.
- Forrest Carter
Collection: Hate
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It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.
- Forrest Carter
Collection: Men