I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings. — John Trudell Copy Share Image
“the people in this country who feel most like foreigners to each other are English people who’ve just arrived and the ones… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that... I had… — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
I'm Native American, so it's in my blood to always want brothers and friends. I'm a good brotherhood guy. — Duane Chapman Copy Share Image
The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Since the beginning, the US presidents (all of European stock, of course), had been promoting slavery, extermination campaigns against the native population… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
My special cause, the one that alerts my interest and quickens the pace of my life, is to preserve the wildflowers and… — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
"Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and that he never forgets, that hereafter he will… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
That provision in the constitution which requires that the president shall be a native-born citizen (unless he were a citizen of the… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed! - seems native more of air Than earth! -… — James Sheridan Knowles Copy Share Image
I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with… — Donald Cargill Copy Share Image
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said Allah God has come to fight the battle of justice for the Black man and woman of… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I find that the respectable man, so called, has immediately drifted from his position, and despairs of his country, when his country… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The strike and its outcome had an enormous impact on the system of education and on our lives as well. The strike… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Normal children of both sexes and all cultures will follow a more or less standard and universal developmental pattern and timetable, and… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of music, whether produced by an instrument… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
When you study the lives of all great achievers-those who have had the greatest influence on others, those who have made things… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
My beautiful, my own My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face! Thy very winds… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has… — Lisa Bonet Copy Share Image
I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
I think good actors are born with a kind of native gift. When you study too much with an acting teacher, that… — Titus Welliver Copy Share Image
Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
In our culture, the Native Americans, when two strangers come together. You know what we do in our culture? We smoke the… — Tatanka Copy Share Image
My son, you are now flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone. By the ceremony performed this day, every drop… — Chief Blackfish Copy Share Image
There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul. — John Oates Copy Share Image
I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
It is a strange world," I murmered, more to myself than to the native soul. "The strangest," he agreed. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
On any state elections map, the reservations are blue places. Native people are most often progressives, Democrats, and by no means gun-toting… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The Cloud-Native Enterprise is a venture capitalist creating continuous innovation powered by Cloud Foundry. — Colin Humphreys Copy Share Image