Black Kettle Quotes

I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses, and everything else, it is hard for to believe the white man any more.

Black Kettle

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• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

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• You just can't control your art in the future.

  

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• I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.

  

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• Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.

  

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• There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

  

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• Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

  

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• I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.

  

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• Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.

  

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• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

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• Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.

  

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• It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.

  

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• Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

  

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• Every organization has issues and concerns which are known about by many people who choose to remain silent.

  

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• I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses, and everything else, it is hard for to believe the white man any more.

  

  Black Kettle
  • Believe
  • Friend