Cherokee/culture/marriage

Famous quotes containing the words cherokee, culture and/or marriage:

    “A Cherokee is too smart to put anything in the contribution box of a race that’s robbed him of his birthright.”
    —Howard Estabrook (1884–1978)

    “Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.”
    —Gerald Early (b. 1952)

    “the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor’s knot.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)