Though we have our own native flavour for each state or country, music has no language. — Devi Sri Prasad Copy Share Image
I'm half Native American and half white so I think I can adjust culturally to anything. — Jacoby Ellsbury Copy Share Image
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us — Dennis Banks Copy Share Image
Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I grew up in Chelsea on 22nd Street... I am really a native New Yorker. — Matt McGorry Copy Share Image
The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use. — Horace Copy Share Image
The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes. — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my parents… — Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey Copy Share Image
I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she… — Wovoka Copy Share Image
Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related… — Charles Alexander Eastman Copy Share Image
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I think the worst one [indian mascot] is the Cleveland Indians' Big Chief Wahoo. It's just a red face on a baseball… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor… — John Smith Copy Share Image
Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I doubt very much that the chief executives of any of the Fortune 500 corporations can name five edible plants, five native… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity, is that of character. The richest bequest which any… — Robert Charles Winthrop Copy Share Image
And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Maybe the American Dream is too rich for us now in the U.S. Maybe we're losing it because we are not like… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon,… — Chief Dan George Copy Share Image
Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are… — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
In a business that has exploited and ignored our people I have only found dead-ends. We need romantic comedies, gross-out and mockery… — Misty Upham Copy Share Image
I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say... — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
“In a world run by the indigenous, no ethnicity is the second race.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I see myself as a native, a member of the community here in Indy. — Tyrese Haliburton Copy Share Image
The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them. — Skeet Ulrich Copy Share Image
“I think it’s a very brave thing to do. To start a new life in a new country.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“I know what it’s like to be different. I’m a Native American in a white world.” — Tamara Hoffa Copy Share Image
I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil. — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. — Black Elk Copy Share Image