Black people Quote by Sherman Alexie Download Open image ““I wasn't just defending myself. I was defending Indians, black people, and buffalo.”” — Sherman Alexie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Black people Defending Defending Defending Defending Indians Defending Myself Just Defending People Buffalo
“People think Indians are a problem, but it’s them white outlaws who are the threat.” — Susan Denning Copy Share Image
“he hated the constant danger of Indian attack; but being here was better than being in jail back in New Orleans for robbery and… — Rosanne Bittner Copy Share Image
“Defending yourself is not the same as offending your enemy. Watch what you say.” — Holly Chamberlin Copy Share Image
“he hoped the sheer isolation would keep most intruders from venturing in this direction. That, and the willingness of the Indians to defend what… — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
“I didn't literally kill Indians. We were supposed to make you give up being Indian. Your songs and stories and language and dancing. Everything.… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“I never think of myself as an attacker, only as a defender - usually of rights - mine and others.” — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“We must defend ourselves according to our opponents' ability, not their intentions.” — Koushun Takami Copy Share Image
“The white men had basically crapped all over the only race that could call itself indigenous in America.” — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“He says the earth is an oval marble that nobody can win. He says the sky is not blue and the grass is not… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Now, in the old days, Indians used to be forgiving of any kind of eccentricity. In fact, weird people were often celebrated. Epileptics were… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Since Jesus was human then he most assuredly farted and burped. And if God did create us in God's image then God must fart… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“A century ago she might have been beautiful, her face reflected in the river instead of a mirror. But all the years have changed… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Is there really a difference between that killing and this killing? Does God approve of some killing and not other killing? If I kill… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes can also… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Or maybe I could have anesthetized myself with homework and extra credit and binge-reading.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Dear wife, I'm sorry that I am mysteriously incapable of folding clean laundry, but I iron, oh, I iron. Sweetheart, I'll make your white… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Hollywood is so fixated on keeping it that way because it's generating the buzz, but that representation isn't right. I definitely feel like it's… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
Black Privilege is a concrete motive that black people benefit from, such as racism but racism on whites. Black people don't know it but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Acknowledging that my skin was, in fact, Cocoa as it is, would have destroyed their narrative about who I really was. Therefore they had… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture? — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
“Any ministry to black people which is not designed to effect their empowerment is designed to perpetuate their enslavement.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing… — Lewis Nkosi Copy Share Image
Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image