Decker Yazzie:
CLASS OF 1984
Chinle High SchoolClass of 1984
Chinle, AZ
Decker's Story
Decker's schools include Chinle High School.
Music Decker likes includes System of a Down, Young Spirit Singers, Mastadon. Books Decker likes include Farenheit 451, To Kill a Mockingbird, Dancing With Crazy. Movies Decker likes include Battle Royale, Contraband, Tattoo Documentary Project. TV shows Decker likes include Frozen Planet, The Walking Dead, HDNet Concerts.
One of Decker's favorite quotes is:""Thoughts are like arrows: once released, they strike their mark. Guard them well or one day you may be your own victim." Navajo Proverb
George Carlin on Indians:
'Now the Indians. I call them Indians because that's what they are. They're Indians. There's nothing wrong with the word Indian. First of all, it's important to know that the word Indian does not derive from Columbus mistakenly believing he had reached 'India.' India was not even called by that name in 1492; it was known as Hindustan.
More likely, the word Indian comes from Columbus's description of the people he found here. He was an Italian, and did not speak or write very good Spanish, so in his written accounts he called the Indians, 'Una gente in Dios.' A people in God. In God. In Dios. Indians. It's a perfectly noble and respectable word.
As far as calling them 'Americans' is concerned, do I even have to point out what an insult this is? ----- We steal their hemisphere, kill twenty or so million of them, destroy five hundred separate cultures, herd the survivors onto the worst land we can find, and now we want to name them after ourselves? It's appalling. Haven't we done enough damage? Do we have ...Expand for more
to further degrade them by tagging them with the repulsive name of their conquerors?
You know, you'd think it would be a fairly simple thing to come over to this continent, commit genocide, eliminate the forests, dam up the rivers, build our malls and massage parlors, sell our blenders and whoopee cushions, poison ourselves with chemicals, and let it go at that. But no. We have to compound the insult.'...
I'm glad the Indians have gambling casinos now. It makes me happy that dimwitted white people are losing their rent money to the Indians. Maybe the Indians will get lucky and win their country back. Probably wouldn't want it. Look at what we did to it.'
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us.Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." Einstein
"Religion is for people who are afraid to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who been to hell."
How can we trust you? When Jesus Christ came on earth, you killed him and nailed him to a cross. - Tecumseh 1810
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them |
-- Albert Einstein
A gem cannot be polished without friction, anything you are going through right now that you find difficult is your polishing, just know on the other side of your trials, you will be shining.â ~ Steven Whyte".
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