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Our little suburb had more roads, bridges, libraries, recreation centers, and sidewalks than on the entire reservation. How could the Navajos have so little in a land where there was so much?
You should never respond to unkindness with more of the same. It makes you lesser.
“A formal education will earn you a salary. Self-education will make you a fortune.
Her definition of love was obligation and guilt. It was the only love the Crow family had to offer.
The Anglo government took away the Navajos’ livelihood and dignity, giving them welfare and unemployment instead.
“Be careful whenever everything is given to you,” Mr. Ashcroft said. “Because then you’ll be totally beholden to your masters.”
“You can’t change your childhood, but you can let it go,”
Then it came to me. The only way to be free was to forgive them—and forgive myself.
