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Tommy Orange Quote: “That’s what she loves about Motown, the way it asks you to carry sadness and heartbreak but dance while doing so.”

51. “That’s what she loves about Motown, the way it asks you to carry sadness and heartbreak but dance while doing so.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Yes, things look bad these days. Everyone talks like it’s getting better and that just makes it all the worse that it’s still so bad.”

52. “Yes, things look bad these days. Everyone talks like it’s getting better and that just makes it all the worse that it’s still so bad.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “I’m as Native as Obama is black. It’s different though.”

53. “I’m as Native as Obama is black. It’s different though.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Opal, you have to know that we should never not tell our stories, and that no one is too young to hear.”

54. “Opal, you have to know that we should never not tell our stories, and that no one is too young to hear.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “All the way from the top of Canada, the top of Alaska, down to the bottom of South America, Indians were removed, then reduced to a feathered image. Our greats are on flags, jerseys, and coins.”

55. “All the way from the top of Canada, the top of Alaska, down to the bottom of South America, Indians were removed, then reduced to a feathered image. Our greats are on flags, jerseys, and coins.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “We’ve all been through a lot we don’t understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can’t break even when it’s what we need most to do.”

56. “We’ve all been through a lot we don’t understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can’t break even when it’s what we need most to do.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Like who we are deep inside, that thing we want to name but can’t, it’s like we’re afraid we’ll be punished for it. So we hide. We drink alcohol because it helps us feel like we can be ourselves and not be afraid. But we punish ourselves with it. The thing we most don’t want has a way of landing right on top of us. That badger medicine’s the only thing that stands a chance at helping. You gotta learn how to stay down there. Way deep down inside yourself, unafraid.”

57. “Like who we are deep inside, that thing we want to name but can’t, it’s like we’re afraid we’ll be punished for it. So we hide. We drink alcohol because it helps us feel like we can be ourselves and not be afraid. But we punish ourselves with it. The thing we most don’t want has a way of landing right on top of us. That badger medicine’s the only thing that stands a chance at helping. You gotta learn how to stay down there. Way deep down inside yourself, unafraid.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “There’s almost too much information out there. The internet is like a brain trying to figure out a brain. I depend on the internet for recall now. There’s no reason to remember when it’s always just right there, like the way everyone used to know phone numbers by heart and now can’t even remember their own. Remembering itself is becoming old-fashioned.”

58. “There’s almost too much information out there. The internet is like a brain trying to figure out a brain. I depend on the internet for recall now. There’s no reason to remember when it’s always just right there, like the way everyone used to know phone numbers by heart and now can’t even remember their own. Remembering itself is becoming old-fashioned.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “This is how time skips. Links just lead to links that can lead you all the way back to the twelfth century.”

59. “This is how time skips. Links just lead to links that can lead you all the way back to the twelfth century.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Sometimes she can’t move. Sometimes it feels impossible to do anything. But that’s okay because she’s become quite good at getting lost in the doing of things. More than one thing at a time preferably... the trick is to stay busy, distract then distract the distraction. Get twice removed. It’s about layers. It’s about disappearing in the whir of noise and doing.”

60. “Sometimes she can’t move. Sometimes it feels impossible to do anything. But that’s okay because she’s become quite good at getting lost in the doing of things. More than one thing at a time preferably... the trick is to stay busy, distract then distract the distraction. Get twice removed. It’s about layers. It’s about disappearing in the whir of noise and doing.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “We don’t have time, Nephew, time has us. It holds us in its mouth like an owl holds a field mouse.”

61. “We don’t have time, Nephew, time has us. It holds us in its mouth like an owl holds a field mouse.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “But we spent almost all our free time together – when we weren’t’ in school – and it turns out that who you spend time with ends up mattering more than what you do with that time.”

62. “But we spent almost all our free time together – when we weren’t’ in school – and it turns out that who you spend time with ends up mattering more than what you do with that time.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Everything is new and doomed.”

63. “Everything is new and doomed.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Most of all travel is about leaving and coming home.”

64. “Most of all travel is about leaving and coming home.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “I grew up in Moraga, which is a suburb just on the other side of the Oakland hills – which makes me even more Oakland hills than the Oakland hills kids. So I grew up with money, a pool in the backyard, an overbearing mother, an absent father. I brought home outdated racist insults from school like it was the 1950s. All Mexican slurs, of course, since people where I grew up don’t know Natives still exist. That’s how much those Oakland hills separate us from Oakland. Those hills bend time.”

65. “I grew up in Moraga, which is a suburb just on the other side of the Oakland hills – which makes me even more Oakland hills than the Oakland hills kids. So I grew up with money, a pool in the backyard, an overbearing mother, an absent father. I brought home outdated racist insults from school like it was the 1950s. All Mexican slurs, of course, since people where I grew up don’t know Natives still exist. That’s how much those Oakland hills separate us from Oakland. Those hills bend time.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Old songs that sang to the old sadness you always kept as close as skin without meaning to. The word triumph blipped in your head then. What was it doing there? You never used that word. This was what it sounded like to make it through theses hundreds of American years, to sing through them. This was the sound of pain forgetting itself in song.”

66. “Old songs that sang to the old sadness you always kept as close as skin without meaning to. The word triumph blipped in your head then. What was it doing there? You never used that word. This was what it sounded like to make it through theses hundreds of American years, to sing through them. This was the sound of pain forgetting itself in song.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “They’d told us to fly the American flag. We flew that and a white flag too. Surrender, the white flag waved. We stood under both flags as they came at us. They did more than kill us. They tore us up. Mutilated us.”

67. “They’d told us to fly the American flag. We flew that and a white flag too. Surrender, the white flag waved. We stood under both flags as they came at us. They did more than kill us. They tore us up. Mutilated us.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Numbers are consistent. You can count on them.”

68. “Numbers are consistent. You can count on them.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “They took everything and ground it down to dust as fine as gunpowder, they fired their guns into the air in victory and the strays flew out into the nothingness of histories written wrong and meant to be forgotten. Stray bullets and consequences are landing on our unsuspecting bodies even now.”

69. “They took everything and ground it down to dust as fine as gunpowder, they fired their guns into the air in victory and the strays flew out into the nothingness of histories written wrong and meant to be forgotten. Stray bullets and consequences are landing on our unsuspecting bodies even now.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “The process that brings anything to its current form – chemical, synthetic, technological, or otherwise – doesn’t make the product not a product of the living earth.”

70. “The process that brings anything to its current form – chemical, synthetic, technological, or otherwise – doesn’t make the product not a product of the living earth.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Remembering itself is becoming old-fashioned.”

71. “Remembering itself is becoming old-fashioned.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Time only seems to have skipped, or to have sped by without you when you looked the other way.”

72. “Time only seems to have skipped, or to have sped by without you when you looked the other way.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “You’d wake up with blood underneath your fingernails – a sharp sting wherever the wound moved, because it moved everywhere, all over your body – and blood ended up on your sheets, and you’d wake up feeling like you’d dreamed something as important and devastating as it was forgotten. But there was no dream. There was only the open, living wound, and it itched somewhere on your body at all times.”

73. “You’d wake up with blood underneath your fingernails – a sharp sting wherever the wound moved, because it moved everywhere, all over your body – and blood ended up on your sheets, and you’d wake up feeling like you’d dreamed something as important and devastating as it was forgotten. But there was no dream. There was only the open, living wound, and it itched somewhere on your body at all times.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “This was what it sounded like to make it through these hundreds of American years, to sing through them. This was the sound of pain forgetting itself in song.”

74. “This was what it sounded like to make it through these hundreds of American years, to sing through them. This was the sound of pain forgetting itself in song.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “As for your mother’s side, as for your whiteness, there’s too much and not enough there to know what to do with. You’re from a people who took and took and took and took. And from a people taken. You were both and neither.”

75. “As for your mother’s side, as for your whiteness, there’s too much and not enough there to know what to do with. You’re from a people who took and took and took and took. And from a people taken. You were both and neither.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “You want to run them down. Scream something at them. Scare them back to wherever they came from. Scare them out of Oakland. Scare the Oakland they made their own out of them.”

76. “You want to run them down. Scream something at them. Scare them back to wherever they came from. Scare them out of Oakland. Scare the Oakland they made their own out of them.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Opal likes numbers. Numbers are consistent. You can count on them. But for Opal, certain numbers are good and others are bad. Even numbers are generally better than odd ones, and numbers that have some kind of mathematical relationship are good too.”

77. “Opal likes numbers. Numbers are consistent. You can count on them. But for Opal, certain numbers are good and others are bad. Even numbers are generally better than odd ones, and numbers that have some kind of mathematical relationship are good too.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “She believes we all do precisely what we think we can get away with.”

78. “She believes we all do precisely what we think we can get away with.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Urban Indians feel at home walking in the shadow of a downtown building. We came to know the downtown Oakland skyline better than we did any sacred mountain range, the redwoods in the Oakland hills better than any other deep wild forest.”

79. “Urban Indians feel at home walking in the shadow of a downtown building. We came to know the downtown Oakland skyline better than we did any sacred mountain range, the redwoods in the Oakland hills better than any other deep wild forest.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Some of us came to the cities to escape the reservation. We stayed after fighting in the Second World War. After Vietnam, too. We stayed because the city sounds like a war, and you can’t leave a war once you’ve been you can only keep it at bay – which is easier when you can see and hear it near you, that fast metal, that constant firing around you, cars up and down the streets and freeways like bullets.”

80. “Some of us came to the cities to escape the reservation. We stayed after fighting in the Second World War. After Vietnam, too. We stayed because the city sounds like a war, and you can’t leave a war once you’ve been you can only keep it at bay – which is easier when you can see and hear it near you, that fast metal, that constant firing around you, cars up and down the streets and freeways like bullets.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Normal has for too long meant average white.”

81. “Normal has for too long meant average white.”

— Tommy Orange

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