Forrest Carter Quotes

• You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.

  Forrest Carter

  People, Knows, Has Beens

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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

  Grandma, Way, Firsts

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• Everything growing wild is a hundred times stronger than tame things.

  Forrest Carter

  Stronger, Growing, Hundred

  Forrest Carter (2001). “The Education of Little Tree”, p.101, UNM Press

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• Indian believes they ain't but two sins... bein a coward... and turnin agin yer own kind.

  Forrest Carter

  Believe, Two, Coward

  Forrest Carter (1989). “Josey Wales: Two Westerns”, p.120, UNM Press

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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

  Purpose, World, Fool

  Forrest Carter (2001). “The Education of Little Tree”, p.37, UNM Press

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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

  Hate, Warrior, Men

  Forrest Carter (1989). “Josey Wales: Two Westerns”, p.125, UNM Press

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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

  Men, Enemy, Want

  Forrest Carter (1989). “Josey Wales: Two Westerns : Gone to Texas; The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales”, p.64, UNM Press

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