Quote by Anne Hillerman

“I realized that, sure, I was a Spokane Indian. I belonged to that tribe. But I also belonged to the tribe of American immigrants.…

— Sherman Alexie

“A cavalry of sweaty but righteous blond gods chased pesky, unkempt people across an annoyingly leaky Mexican border. A grimy cowboy with a headdress…

— Ellen Meloy

“One of the many facets of Navajo culture that appeals to me is the lack of value attached to vengeance. This ‘eye for an…

— Anne Hillerman

“Rolling country, not yet quite mountainous, with woods and lakes, is what I like best.”

— Franz Kafka

“As I climb'd the mountain's side, Where the Lake and Valley meet, All my country's power and pride Lay in ruins at my feet.”

— James Montgomery

I'd like to invoke the Native American Navajo because their word for road is used as a verb. Their whole relationship to road has…

— Anne Waldman

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of…

— Tony Hillerman

“Fleetingly he wondered what the man's life had been like, where it had gone so desperately wrong. No one tried to end up like…

— Kristin Hannah

“Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?…

— A.E. Housman

“We’re immigrants. We get the job done. Alexander Hamilton to the Marquis de Lafayette me (at centre-stage)”

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

“Illegal Immigrant in every state, for I come from a Time beyond tribes.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Two-sentence horror story: I woke up in a country founded on the genocide of native peoples and the enslavement of imported ones. I could…

— Miles Garrett