Quote by Geraldine Brooks

“Most Indians' deliberate, cultivated, amoral innocence about what is happening there, what is being done in their name, becomes hard to bear.”

— Arundhati Roy

“Because the thing you learn as a hugely ambitious Indian is that you’re often going to be the only Indian in the room, so…

— Sherman Alexie

“It seems you are the kind of squaw those Indians would like to have, but make sure they don't! One who keeps her men…

— LaVyrle Spencer

“Of all the things we Indians love doing, getting offended is our favorite.”

— Soumeet Lanka

“You don't realise how much of a native you are until you become a foreigner.”

— Vikram Kapur

“I have often wondered whether it is really a good thing to be honest by nature and upbringing; certainly it is not a good…

— Barbara Pym

“I asked him if there was a way in which he could accept just my desire to learn, as if I were an Indian.”

— Carlos Castaneda

“Our people don't come in parts. Either you are Indian, or you are not." --”

— Nippawanock Arapahoe

“The English intellect is sound, so far as it goes,but it has one grave defect--it is always cautious in the wrong place.”

— Wilkie Collins

“We Indians have to keep aside our December for friends who've settled abroad. Everyone is visiting. Everyone wants to party.”

— Nitya Prakash

“Indians paid, in other words, for the privilege of being conquered by the British.”

— Shashi Tharoor

“Whether or not I look ‘Indian’, I am Indian and I represent India, with pride and all my heart.”

— M.C. Mary Kom