Top 7 Quotes by Forrest Carter

You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.

You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.

People, Knows, Has Beens

Grandma said [...] when you come on something that is good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good spreads out to where no telling it will go.

Forrest Carter

Grandma, Way, Firsts

Everything growing wild is a hundred times stronger than tame things.

Forrest Carter

Stronger, Growing, Hundred

Forrest Carter (2001). “The Education of Little Tree”, p.101, UNM Press

Indian believes they ain't but two sins... bein a coward... and turnin agin yer own kind.

Forrest Carter

Believe, Two, Coward

Forrest Carter (1989). “Josey Wales: Two Westerns”, p.120, UNM Press

Granpa said if there was less words, there wouldn't be as much trouble in the world. He said privately to me that there was always some damn fool making up a word that served no purpose except to cause trouble.

Forrest Carter

Purpose, World, Fool

Forrest Carter (2001). “The Education of Little Tree”, p.37, UNM Press