"...it was the white people who were suffering as theives do, never able to forget that their pride was wrapped in something stolen, something that had never been, and could never be, theirs. ...But the effects were hidden, evident only in the sterility of their art, which continued to feed off the vitality of other cultures, and in the dissolution of their consciousness into dead objects: the plastic and neon, the concrete and steel." ~Leslie Marmon Silko