Native Quotes

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.

As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.

When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me.

The name Crow was inspired by a number of things. I thought it would be cool to have a robot with sort of a Native American feel to it.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.

I can speak Esperanto like a native.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history.

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.

I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.

Al Zarqawi had a long history of terrorism. He was responsible for several bombings and beheadings in Iraq, including Pennsylvania native Nicholas Berg.

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

I know the activists I deal with, we sort of try and check each other to make sure that we haven't gone native, that you come to Washington thinking it's a cesspool, you don't want to end up thinking it's really a hot tub and getting used to it. So that's something one has to keep an eye on all the time.

I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre.

During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.