Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.
I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.
I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!
Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.
I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?
I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.
The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.
I think I've been in situations where they looked at me and just see some rich white guy - they don't see me at all.