Creative genius Quote by T.J. Stiles

“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

For decades, Indians have immigrated to the United States, joined our communities, and raised their families while maintaining their cultural heritage.

— Henry Paulson

“That Native American cultures are imperiled is important and not just to Indians. It is important to everyone, or should be. When we lose…

— David Treuer

The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern…

— Stewart Udall

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

The American public has difficulty believing ... [that] injustice continues to be inflicted upon Indian people because Americans assume that the sympathy and tolerance…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

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

West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.

— Melanie Fiona

My heart is so heavy when I see the reality of the Indian reservation and as an American, I know I am, too, responsible.

— Maya Angelou

What strikes me every single time is that the aspirations of Indians are unique and unparalleled. They're very demanding, regardless of background.

— Sundar Pichai

It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land,…

— Linda Hogan

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

— Arundhati Roy