The Business of Fancydancing (2002)

Gene Tagaban: Aristotle Joseph

Quotes 

• Seymour Polatkin : I deserved a better life than I was born into. But I made it better with nobody's help, including shit from you. And I got no help from any of these goddamn Indians here. I had to do it myself.

  Aristotle Joseph : You write about these goddamn Indians! Telling me you did it yourself! These Indians that you write about, they're helping you every day, each and every one of them; every house, every story, every poem. They're helping you. Telling me you had nobody. We've been helping you since you were born.

• Aristotle Joseph : To thy own self be true.

• Aristotle Joseph : Man, you like it out here don't you? Playing Indian, putting on the beads and feathers for all these white people. Out here you're their little public relations warrior. You're a super Indian. You're the expert and the authority. But at home man, you're just little Indian who cries too much.

  [to Seymour]