Red Haircrow quotes

“You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.”
-- Red Haircrow

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“Men can have an obvious display of heroics or strength or accomplishment, but it is the unsung women throughout all ages of humankind who have endured with superlative strength, beauty and love, often with secret suffering, that deserve absolute respect and acknowlegement. They are the true heroes of humanity. They are the champions who have birthed and nurtured us, who have held us together at the most integral level, when men seemed intent only on tearing apart the fabric of life for irrelevant ideals.”
-- Red Haircrow

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“I welcome questions. I hate assumptions.”
-- Red Haircrow

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“Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover from the emotion spent before I began a new story. My characters are my life. I have to respectfully and carefully move between them.”
-- Red Haircrow

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“I write to believe in goodness.”
-- Red Haircrow

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“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”

“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”

“I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.”

“Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.”

“I am tortured too. I am tortured by belly fat and magazine covers about how to please everyone but myself. I am tortured by sheep who click on anything that will guarantee a ten-pound loss in one week. Sheep who will get on their knees if it means someone will like them more. I am tortured by my inability to want to hang out with desperate sheep. I am tortured by ***** yearbooks full of bullshit. I met you when. I'll miss the times. I'll keep in touch. Best friends forever. Is this okay? Are you all right? Are you tortured too?”

“Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'.”

“Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.”

“One thing I don't like is when you disrespect the law.”

“Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.”

Source : Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin

“Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.”