Every Native North American text I've ever grappled with has taught me something important about how to live on the continent where… — Robert Bringhurst 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
Can you imagine anything more tragic?' Rose asked. 'To be born a princess --native and to the manor born-- and then to… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into… — Hannah Storm Copy Share Image
The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In the native world, major gods come in trios, duos, and groups. It is the habit of non-natives to discover the supreme… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
The dominant feature of the later legislation has been this steady reduction of the status of the native, and, though the intention… — Paul Hasluck 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
Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indianwe can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
So, rather than becoming multicultural, rather than becoming a person of several languages, rather than becoming confident in your knowledge of the… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies. — Eric Balfour Copy Share Image
My sense is that file sharing started in predominantly white, middle- and upper-middle-cl ass young people who were native-born, who felt they… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
The power of these recommendations is that they come from leaders representing a broad spectrum of religious conviction. At the table were… — Charles Haynes Copy Share Image
And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The United States - you know, native people are large landowners, but the military has a huge chunk of our territories. And… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
