American life Quote by Melanie Fiona

For so long, the world has viewed West Indian culture as semiliterate and backward, which it is not. In my work, I have tried…

— Derek Walcott

Many Indians have told me that the most basic difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that Westerners view the world as…

— Anonymous

American popular culture has long been marked by an absence of empathy for American Indians. Westerns doubled as a campaign against so-called savages in…

— Wesley Morris

The typical Western is kind of a good-guy/bad-guy thing, and that's great, but initially when I heard about 'Into the West,' and what I…

— Matthew Settle

America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies.…

— Narendra Modi

In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype…

— Ricky Schroder

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western…

— Steven Pinker

I live in a neighborhood where there's a lot of West Indian culture, so it's nice.

— Eve

There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind

— E. P. Thompson

Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they're human: sometimes a mess, sometimes funny or sad,…

— Alexandra Fuller

It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.

— Ram Dass

The Indians are a civilization wrought with culture and a beautiful, deep spirituality.

— Cree Summer