Category - Gerald Vizenor

Discover the thoughtful and inspirational Quotes of Gerald Vizenor, a philosopher and author. Our collection of his most impactful quotes reflects his deep understanding of language, philosophy, and history.
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Gerald Vizenor

Mixed-bloods loosen the seams in the shrouds of identities.

– Gerald Vizenor

Gerald Vizenor

The great liberation of imaginative writing is that you’re not held back by the facts.

– Gerald Vizenor

Gerald Vizenor

If you desecrate a white grave, you wind up sitting in prison. But desecrate an Indian grave, and you get a Ph.D.

– Gerald Vizenor

Gerald Vizenor

Confucius would give his seat to an old woman. Communist cadres, on the other hand, took the best seats and called it a cultural revolution.

– Gerald Vizenor

Gerald Vizenor

There are 13 stories in ‘The Fencepost Chronicles’ about corrupt tribal leaders, trouble on the reserve, survival schemes, and communal drinking.

– Gerald Vizenor

Gerald Vizenor

W. P. Kinsella, who was born on a farm near Edmunton, Alberta, has earned wide recognition for his wild imagination and rash humor as a writer.

– Gerald Vizenor

Gerald Vizenor

I use not casual phrases but imagistic phrases that create a rhythm of natural presence.

– Gerald Vizenor

Gerald Vizenor

It’s so difficult to write in motion and get rid of the past tense, and also to create a sense of impermanence.

– Gerald Vizenor

Gerald Vizenor

Even the earliest cave paintings in France and Spain had natural motion.

– Gerald Vizenor

Gerald Vizenor

There is a sense of motion and a concise, immediate image in haikus and Anishinaabe dream songs.

– Gerald Vizenor

Gerald Vizenor

Naanabozho was the first tribal trickster on the earth.

– Gerald Vizenor

Gerald Vizenor

Trickster stories are pleasurable, contradictory, annoying, abrasive. They’re powerful, transformational acts of liberation because they are not nailed down to the real, to the representation of something in the world.

– Gerald Vizenor

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