Navajo Quote by Herman Koch

“It’s hard to be optimistic on the reservation. When a glass sits on a table here, people don’t wonder if it’s half filled or…

— Sherman Alexie

“I know only, like, five Indians in our whole tribe who have never drunk alcohol. And my grandmother was one of them. "Drinking would…

— Sherman Alexie

“Only when the last tree is cut; only when the last river is polluted; only when the last fish is caught; only then will…

— Terry Ross

“Indians are American aren't they? They made corn.”

— Delicia Q. Rivers-Penn

They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a…

— Ike Turner

No longer is drinking an art with Americans; once they drank for the taste, but now they drink only for the effect. The more…

— Alice-Leone Moats

“Al and Lou had arrived at the Wisconsin State Fair by nine in the morning for fresh egg omelettes in the Agriculture Building and…

— Amy E. Reichert

“It’s not really wine,” he said. “It’s Diet Coke. And if anyone ever serves you brown wine with a foamy head, send it back.”

— Jennifer Echols

“They were just little families cooking beans and planting and hunting a deer now and then, and having babies and laying their old folks…

— Nancy E. Turner

“This is Indian country, isn’t it?” Laura said. “What did we come to their country for, if you don’t like them?”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world.”

— T'ien Yiheng

“Samia, it appeared, had become one of those desis who drink Pepsi in Pakistan and lassi in London.”

— Kamila Shamsie