Community Quote by V. S. Naipaul

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

— V. S. Naipaul

I, made in England, felt excluded, miffed, resistant to the idea of even visiting India, a position of increasing absurdity as, one by one,…

— Glen Duncan

Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But…

— James Welch

We sought a tribal society, to be close to each other, not to sit behind a television with our families and not see our…

— Frederick Lenz

The idea is, we're still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe, whatever that tribe…

— Peter Guber

The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free…

— Paula Gunn Allen

We are reluctant to live outside tribal rules because we are afraid of getting kicked out of the tribe.

— Caroline Myss

The fact is that a ghastly class prejudice defines our response to the Indian Diaspora.

— Barkha Dutt

I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.

— Sherman Alexie

This is why Indians are thought to be stupid. They can't think, they don't know anything, they say. But we have hidden our identity…

— Rigoberta Menchu

A lot of what Trinidad is about is the feeling of the place, the atmosphere of the place, particularly at night, and the mystery…

— Chris Ofili

Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.

— Russell Means