Indian Quotes - Page 18

• If Pakistan feels Indian positions are pre-conditions, then there will be no talks.

  Sushma Swaraj

  Pakistan, Feels, Position

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• A lot of the younger Indian generation are either IT geniuses or doctors - the number of doctors I've seen in L.A. who are Indian is just crazy. So it is a very common thing. Or an accountant! That again is a very, very big thing.

  Freida Pinto

  Crazy, Numbers, Doctors

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• Indian celebrities have the media and fans permanently outside their homes, and that would make me really uncomfortable.

  Freida Pinto

  Home, Media, Fans

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• I wouldn't want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason I think Bollywood has become synonymous with commercial cinema, which is song and dance and everything that is larger than life, and I am interested in the reality.

  Freida Pinto

  Song, Reality, Thinking

  "Frieda Pinto Calls Bollywood Mindless!" by bollyspice.com, November 26, 2010.

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• Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian angle, which is dear to my heart, and I recorded several albums with that flavor. Probably even more so than the Brazilian flavor, there's an African, South African and West African influence and on a couple of other tracks there's some Latin flavor and there's some Indian tables on one track, all centered around my jazz guitar and acoustic guitars, and very much a Lee Ritenour sound.

  Lee Ritenour

  Country, Couple, Latin

  "'Jazz Monthly Feature Interview' Lee Ritenour". Interview with Baldwin "Smitty" Smith, jazzmonthly.com. October 2006.

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• I was called "T-Bow" but the people got it mixed up with "T-Bone." My name is Aaron Walker but "T-Bone" is catchy, people remember it. My auntie gave it to me when I was a kid. Mother's mother was a Cherokee Indian full blooded. There were sixteen girls and two boys in my mother's family, all dead but two.

  T-Bone Walker

  Girl, Mother, Kids

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• Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way. Such study began with slave folktales and American Indian stories of contact with whites.

  David Roediger

  Taken, Groups, Stories

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant - everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, United States, Illegal

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, www.guernicamag.com. ugust 15, 2011.

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• The traditional Indian view was to protect our independence; it was therefore quite consistent with the requirements of the time and the feeling of the people. The world may have been misled by Jawaharlal Nehru's own international projection, which in fact had no reality on the ground.

  Subramanian Swamy

  Reality, Views, People

  "Interview with Subramanian Swamy". lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. February 12, 1987.

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• It came to my mind that in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, in Indian spiritual literature, and in the Bhagavad Gita, and when I started reading about outstanding yogis and people of exceeding spiritual power such as Ramana Maharshi, or Yogananda, they all had the ability to do what we would call - I don't know what you would even call it - psychic phenomenon, magic, transform objects, be able to perceive the future, the past and the present simultaneously.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Spiritual, Yoga, Reading

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I am a hundred-percent Indian traditionalist! I am not "playing anything" - that is for the media to be able to say what I am doing.

  Trilok Gurtu

  Media, Able, Hundred

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• I had an Indian face, but I never saw it as Indian, in part because in America the Indian was dead. The Indian had been killed in cowboy movies, or was playing bingo in Oklahoma. Also, in my middle-class Mexican family indio was a bad word, one my parents shy away from to this day. That's one of the reasons, of course, why I always insist, in my bratty way, on saying, Soy indio! - "I am an Indian!"

  Richard Rodriguez

  Cowboy, Class, America

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think it's an important thing for a Mexican to say, especially now with the rebellion in Chiapas. Mexico has to confront her Indian face, and yet she refuses to do so. When you turn on Mexican television, it's like watching Swedish TV: everyone is blond.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Thinking, Mexican, Important

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I keep trying to tell people that Los Angeles is already the largest Indian city in the U.S., that there are Toltecs playing Little League baseball in Pasadena, Mayans making beds at the Marriott in Westwood, and Chichimecs driving buses in L.A. Los Angeles is a majority-Indian city.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Baseball, Cities, League

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Of course, since we don't see the Indian as a living figure - having turned the Indian into a kind of mascot for the ecology movement, a symbol of prehistory - we can't see the Indian among us.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Movement, Kind, Mascots

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• What really terrifies Americans is the prospect that the Indian is very much alive, that the Indian is having nine babies in Guatemala, and that those nine babies are headed this way. This is one reason why Americans hold on so dearly to the myth of the dead Indian.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Baby, Nine, Way

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The myth of the dead Indian goes back to the Protestant settlement of the U.S. The Pilgrims wanted to start a new life in America. They wanted to believe that in some sense they had come to a new Eden and that they could leave history behind in Europe. So they convinced themselves that this land had no history, that this was "virgin" land. This made the Indians' presence inconvenient.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Believe, Europe, Land

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Cultures, when they meet, influence one another, whether people like it or not. But Americans don't have any way of describing this secret that has been going on for more than two hundred years. The intermarriage of the Indian and the African in America, for example, has been constant and thorough. Colin Powell tells us in his autobiography that he is Scotch, Irish, African, Indian, and British, but all we hear is that he is African.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Years, Two, America

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• We're looking at complexity. We're looking at blond kids in Beverley Hills who can speak Spanish because they have been raised by Guatemalan nannies. We're looking at Evangelicals coming up from Latin America to convert the U.S. at the same time that L.A. movie stars are taking up Indian pantheism.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Stars, Latin, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Paki- bashing was kind of this term that was used in general to beat up anyone that was from the Indian subcontinent.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Kind, Used, Beats

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Years, Two, Interesting

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Community, Culture, Indian Culture

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I remember, like, literally saying - watching some cowboy-and-Indian movie with my mother, and I go, so, if we were back then, we'd be the Indians, right? She goes, yup, that's who we'd be. We wouldn't be those guys in the covered wagons. We'd be the Indians.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Mother, Cowboy, Guy

  "Quentin Tarantino: 'Inglourious' Child Of Cinema". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 28, 2009.

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• I'm Indian-American and I think that when I think of myself as being culturally Indian, it had so much to do with when I lived with my parents and was a kid because they would take me to the Diwali festivals. They would take me to the temple, and they would teach me about all the different holidays.

  Mindy Kaling

  Holiday, Kids, Thinking

  "In New Memoir, Mindy Kaling Has More To Say On Life, Love And Showbiz". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www.npr.org. September 12, 2015.

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• Being Indian is an attitude, a state of mind, a way of being in harmony with all things and all beings. It is allowing the heart to be the distributor of energy on this planet; to allow feelings and sensitivities to determine where energy goes; bringing aliveness up from the Earth and from the Sky, putting it in and giving it out from the heart.

  Brooke Medicine Eagle

  Attitude, Heart, Native American

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