Native Quotes

All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan.

On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid the tsunami and earthquake victims.

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

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.

While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations.

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.

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

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.

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

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.