Culture Quote by Buffy Sainte-Marie Download Open image “There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.” — Buffy Sainte-Marie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture Disturbing Joy Native Poverty
There is probably a high percentage of Native Americans as well as non-Indians who feel that participating in this greater American economy that you… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that mass migration, whatever the colour of the skins of those involved, upsets and worries indigenous people, especially the poorest. — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Many of the tribal reservations today remain mired in poverty and alcoholism because many native [sic] Americans continue to cling to the darkness of… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
“That the native does not like the tourist is not hard to explain. For every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this.… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share
I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Nothing is quite like the Native American Spirit. It is so freeing and liberating to understand the culture. It is a way of life. — Jenna Bognar Copy Share Image
“Most Indians' deliberate, cultivated, amoral innocence about what is happening there, what is being done in their name, becomes hard to bear.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are too poor… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they're human: sometimes a mess, sometimes funny or sad,… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
You go to India and you see the poorest village somewhere in the middle of India. And the poor family is happier than any… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
He's a Catholic, a Hindy, an atheist, a Chein, a Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew, and he knows, he shouldn't kill. — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it. — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
Take a bunch of little kids to the beach and they all make art. Adults are too stupid to call it art, but it… — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
I feel sorry for people of good heart who have never had a chance to learn the realities of Native American everything - not… — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days. — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked. — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
Every time somebody makes an Indian movie...Cher on a horse with a headdress and a miniskirt...the fashion industry cashes in. — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
I really work hard to shape the song so that it's attractive... You don't want to give people the information in an enema. — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school. — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output. — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
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