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Native Quotes by Sherman Alexie
- Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very,…
- All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American…
- There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social…
- I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.
- My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the…
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- When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. — Dave Attell
- What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
- Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it. — Sri Aurobindo
- Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand,… — Bob Beauprez
- Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter… — Daniel Boone
- I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans -… — Beau Bridges
- Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last… — Jacob Bronowski
- Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. — Jean de la Bruyere
- In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone… — Bill Bryson
- Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from… — Bill Bryson
- 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