Cherokee Neutral Lands

Famous quotes containing the words cherokee, neutral and/or lands:

    “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)

    “I feel the carousel starting slowly
    And going faster and faster: desk, papers, books,
    Photographs of friends, the window and the trees
    Merging in one neutral band that surrounds
    Me on all sides, everywhere I look.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “There dwelt a man in faire Westmerland,
    Jonnë Armestrong men did him call,
    He had nither lands nor rents coming in,
    Yet he kept eight score men in his hall.”
    —Unknown. Johnie Armstrong (l. 1–4)