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Tommy Orange Quote: “Everyone thinks kids don’t get what a world is, what this world is. But we feel it all. We want nothing more than to make-believe belief can be enough, and when we realize it isn’t, when you make kids believe belief isn’t enough, we take it all in under hooded eyes.”

101. “Everyone thinks kids don’t get what a world is, what this world is. But we feel it all. We want nothing more than to make-believe belief can be enough, and when we realize it isn’t, when you make kids believe belief isn’t enough, we take it all in under hooded eyes.”

— 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.”

102. “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: “One thing I want you to understand is that your suffering does not make you special. There’s a voice inside everyone who suffers that says, no one else has it like this, and so much selfish action comes from listening to that voice.”

103. “One thing I want you to understand is that your suffering does not make you special. There’s a voice inside everyone who suffers that says, no one else has it like this, and so much selfish action comes from listening to that voice.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Hannah wanted to have children, and I wasn’t necessarily against it, but didn’t really believe in the future.”

104. “Hannah wanted to have children, and I wasn’t necessarily against it, but didn’t really believe in the future.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Your dying mother could not possibly have known how apt the name Victoria was for the year you were born. In 1924 the American Indian Wars will be declared over after a hundred and thirteen years. Any war that long becomes victorious by virtue of simply ending, has no winners or losers only what’s left, what could survive so much war is made more than war by virtue of surviving it.”

105. “Your dying mother could not possibly have known how apt the name Victoria was for the year you were born. In 1924 the American Indian Wars will be declared over after a hundred and thirteen years. Any war that long becomes victorious by virtue of simply ending, has no winners or losers only what’s left, what could survive so much war is made more than war by virtue of surviving it.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “To be human was to struggle, and to be a good human was to struggle gracefully, which required first being deep in the struggle, only from there could one transcend the struggle in a meaningful way.”

106. “To be human was to struggle, and to be a good human was to struggle gracefully, which required first being deep in the struggle, only from there could one transcend the struggle in a meaningful way.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “I’m being asked to understand that with some people you love, they just won’t end up being a part of your life. I’m being asked a question that it seems I can answer only by living.”

107. “I’m being asked to understand that with some people you love, they just won’t end up being a part of your life. I’m being asked a question that it seems I can answer only by living.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Christianity is so weird, but everyone pretends like it isn’t.”

108. “Christianity is so weird, but everyone pretends like it isn’t.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “A bad thing doesn’t stop happening to you just because it stops happening to you. In therapy this is called trauma.”

109. “A bad thing doesn’t stop happening to you just because it stops happening to you. In therapy this is called trauma.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “It’s worse when they know what they want and they’re hungry for it, white men in this country, they come to take everything, even themselves, they have taken so much they have lost themselves in the taking, and what will be left of such a nation once they are done?”

110. “It’s worse when they know what they want and they’re hungry for it, white men in this country, they come to take everything, even themselves, they have taken so much they have lost themselves in the taking, and what will be left of such a nation once they are done?”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “All those years ago. They seemed so good. You could say that about years you couldn’t get back, wish for normal when normal seemed to be taken away, even if normal was never all that good in the first place.”

111. “All those years ago. They seemed so good. You could say that about years you couldn’t get back, wish for normal when normal seemed to be taken away, even if normal was never all that good in the first place.”

— 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.”

112. “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: “And yes it would be nice if the rest of the country understood that not all of us have our culture or language intact directly because of what happened to our people, how we were systematically wiped out from the outside in and then the inside out, and consistently dehumanized and misrepresented in the media and in educational institutions, but we needed to understand it for ourselves. The extent we made it through. The extent.”

113. “And yes it would be nice if the rest of the country understood that not all of us have our culture or language intact directly because of what happened to our people, how we were systematically wiped out from the outside in and then the inside out, and consistently dehumanized and misrepresented in the media and in educational institutions, but we needed to understand it for ourselves. The extent we made it through. The extent.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Beware of the man who does not talk and the dog who does not bark. – Cheyenne proverb.”

114. “Beware of the man who does not talk and the dog who does not bark. – Cheyenne proverb.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “How I became a heavy drinker happened entirely by chance, or if you believed in such things, as I did, fate.”

115. “How I became a heavy drinker happened entirely by chance, or if you believed in such things, as I did, fate.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “You get a light behind you when what feels like the worst that can happen to you happens to you. It never goes away. It lives behind you. It’s there whenever you need it. The light shoots through, bright and wide and says: At least I’m not there. Back there when we thought the lights went out forever. At least this is not that.”

116. “You get a light behind you when what feels like the worst that can happen to you happens to you. It never goes away. It lives behind you. It’s there whenever you need it. The light shoots through, bright and wide and says: At least I’m not there. Back there when we thought the lights went out forever. At least this is not that.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “The spiders weave a web to keep the stars in place, as guiding light in our darknesses. The stars are our ancestors, but the spiders are too. They are the weaving and the light.”

117. “The spiders weave a web to keep the stars in place, as guiding light in our darknesses. The stars are our ancestors, but the spiders are too. They are the weaving and the light.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Something had deepened in me. An emptiness that blew me up like a balloon with its nothingness, and floated me off to that non-place in the gray.”

118. “Something had deepened in me. An emptiness that blew me up like a balloon with its nothingness, and floated me off to that non-place in the gray.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Know that it was always true that you were the only one seeing the world the way you were seeing the world.”

119. “Know that it was always true that you were the only one seeing the world the way you were seeing the world.”

— Tommy Orange

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