Jim Carroll Quotes
I was always the young guy. And when you're successful when you're young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y'know.
Carroll, Jim. Interview.
In the 1824 campaign Mrs. Adams made a series of campaign visits with the wives of Washington political notables.
by giving up raiding and war parties. The Indian nations of America were as diverse as the different peoples of Europe. Many tribes were farmers and cattle raisers. Some tribes traditionally were always engaged in hostilities of war, albeit these were usually small raids or war parties. For a culture where one “became a man” by going on a raid, the idea of a peace treaty with the whites in the area was difficult to accept. Enemy Indian tribes had been removed to other reservations and could not venture out easily. The result was there was no one to raid but the whites. Peace with whites meant no raids, and no raids meant no right of passage. No one could become a war chief if there were no wars. Peace was an enormous cultural inhibitor for some tribes.
James Dennis Carroll was an American author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries; the book inspired a 1995 film of the same title that starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll.
