Controversial Sayings

I don't want any man who will talk bad about me, and tell lies, to be there, because I am going to try and live well and peaceably. I want to have a good man put over me.

I think I am a good man, but in the papers all over the world they say I am a bad man; but it is a bad thing to say so about me. I never do wrong without a cause.

I wish I had killed more Mexicans.

Once I moved about like the wind. Now I surrender to you and that is all.

This is the fourth time I have surrendered.

Good, you told the truth.

I was living peaceably with my family, having plenty to eat, sleeping well, taking care of my people, and perfectly contented. I don't know where those bad stories first came from.

I was living peaceably and well, but I did not leave on my own accord. Had I left it would have been right to blame me; but as it is, blame those men who started this talk about me.

I was praying to the light and to the darkness, to God and to the sun, to let me live quietly with my family. I don't know what the reason was that people should speak badly of me. I don't want to be blamed. The fault was not mine. Blame those three …

There are very few of my men left now. They have done some bad things but I want them all rubbed out now and let us never speak of them again.

I am a complete man. Nothing has gone from my body. From here on I want to live at peace. Don't believe any bad talk you hear about me.

Much that was done by mean white men was reported at Washington as the deeds of my people.

If I had been let alone I would now have been in good circumstances, but instead of that you and the Mexicans are hunting me with soldiers.

The Indians always tried to live peaceably with the white soldiers and settlers.

What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.

Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don't hang yourself, you'll regret it either way; whether you hang …

Marry, and you will regret it; don't marry, you will also regret it; marry or don't marry, you will regret it either way.

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.

I do not call myself a Christian.