Janet Campbell Hale Inspirational Quotes (3)

If you were going to compete successfully in a white man's world, you had to learn to play the white man's game. It was not enough that an Indian be as good as an Indian had to be better than.

If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country.

She was not able to return to the beginning, of course, and remake her life more to her liking, but now she was free to go on with the life she did have.