Native Quotes

646 quotes by 477 authors

My music is more native than intricate or technical. — Dick Dale
God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life… — Saint Ambrose
It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide… — Grover Norquist
When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named… — Joe Posnanski
August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame.… — Henry Rollins
For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists… — F. Sionil Jose
Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic training nor the… — Anne Fortier
I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that… — Alice Walker
A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian. — Richard Dawkins
Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of his life here,… — Martin Jacques
When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not… — Philipp Meyer
All Americans are either immigrants or descendants of ancestors who came from somewhere else, including Native Americans. We should all respect and admire immigrants. — Jan C. Ting
I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there. — Nicole Holofcener
The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country. — Robbie Robertson
Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only… — Robbie Robertson
I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all… — Ron Eglash
As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my parents worked. — Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face. — Jim Yong Kim
The United States, you know, people - one of the reasons that it is said that native people received citizenship in 1924 was so that… — Winona LaDuke
Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the… — Winona LaDuke

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