I'm connected with my indigenous roots.

All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because our basis…

— Sandra Cisneros

What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of barbarism and…

— Thomas Jefferson

Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while…

— Robert Southey

You can become quite blase, and also, I have no sense of home; I don't have roots. I've never had that feeling that someone…

— Lykke Li

I'm getting back to my old roots.

— Tiger Woods

Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.

— Clarice Lispector

My roots are in theater.

— Emma Corrin

“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply…

— Sharon Maas

Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our…

— Steven Biko

“I never learned how to be a woman in this world because I didn't know what it meant to be one. What I learned…

— Elaine Alec

Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are…

— Tim Wise

A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.

— Malcolm Fraser