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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Asa Earl Carter was a 1950s segregationist speech writer, and later Western novelist. He co-wrote George Wallace's well-known pro-segregation line of 1963, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever", and ran in the Democratic primary for governor of Alabama on a segregationist ticket. Years later, under the alias of supposedly Cherokee writer Forrest Carter, he wrote The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (1972), a Western novel that led to a 1976 film featuring Clint Eastwood that was adopted into the National Film Registry, and The Education of Little Tree (1976), a best-selling, award-winning book which was marketed as a memoir but which turned out to be fiction.
It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.
You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.
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.
Everything growing wild is a hundred times stronger than tame things.
He loves deep... hates hard, ever'thing's that killed what he loves. All great warriors are sich men.
Indian believes they ain't but two sins... bein a coward... and turnin agin yer own kind.
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.