American people Quote by Immanuel Kant

I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.

— N. Scott Momaday

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music,…

— Samuel George Morton

A long time ago a very powerful race of Indians lived here. They were from another cycle; their being was of another composition. They…

— Frederick Lenz

Very much like African-Americans, the history of America is taking away resources, whether it's labor or whether it's land from one racial group to…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

If you were going to compete successfully in a white man's world, you had to learn to play the white man's game. It was…

— Janet Campbell Hale

Negroes and Southern Europeans are mentally inferior to native born Americans.

— Margaret Sanger

Indians in general are sort of thick-skinned and hard to be moved.

— Saroo Brierley

What we have done with the American Indian is its way as bad as what we imposed on the Negroes. We took a proud…

— Richard M. Nixon

“They now endure incessant cultural appropriation by a majority society in the United States that celebrates an idealized American Indian but ignores reservation life—the…

— T.J. Stiles

The art of British Columbia's native Indians played a big role in inspiring my creativity... the simplicity of the images, the graciousness of the…

— Joe Average

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

— Ethel Waters

“Despite all of the time he spent in Big Heart's, Wilson had never come to understand the social lives of Indians. He did not…

— Sherman Alexie