Indian Quotes - Page 33

• My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I don't really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, 'meh, let's talk about something else.'

  Mindy Kaling

  Dad, America, People

  "Mindy Kaling: 'People think that because I like girly things I'm dumb'" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2011.

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• I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I am an Indian woman and I'm a kind of double minority in this world.

  Mindy Kaling

  Minorities, World, Want

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• Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.

  Russell Means

  Hollywood, Racist, World

  "Indian Activist, Actor Russel Means Dies". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. October 22, 2012.

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• It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain.

  Russell Means

  Strong, Effort, Way

  "I Am Not a Leader": Russell Means’ 1980 Mother Jones Cover Story, www.motherjones.com.

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• I like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding.

  Archie Panjabi

  Home, Creating, Meals

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• I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.

  Freida Pinto

  Firsts, Actresses

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• Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Culture, Goes On, Sometimes

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• I eat only simple Indian home food - sabzi, roti, dal, chawal, ghee. There are so many benefits of
  having ghee. My grandmother is 84 and she is still fit and looks beautiful.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Beautiful, Home, Grandmother

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• Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.

  Irrfan Khan

  Men, Hollywood, Ready

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• The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Race, White, Politics

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• It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they are Hindus, Catholics or Muslims, a licence to be offended. It also allows people who are in dispute with you to make up false accusations of blasphemy.

  Richard Dawkins

  Law, People, Giving

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• Listen, boy, just ask the chef to make me a proper Full English Breakfast. You know, bacon, fried eggs, sausages, liver, grilled mushrooms and tomatoes, black pudding, kidneys, baked beans, fried bread, toast and served with strong English mustard, mind - none of this effete French muck - and a large mug of hot, strong Indian tea.

  Bryan Talbot

  Strong, Boys, Mushrooms

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• Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel." "Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for."

  Winston Churchill

  Crush, Firsts, Approval

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• I have been getting offers from international artistes for collaboration all across the globe, but I prefer to work with Indian artistes.

  Kailash Kher

  Collaboration, Globes, Offers

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• The Indian wars have never ended in the Americas.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  War

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• The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all. The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Nothing is left us now but death. We look to that with a grim satisfaction, saying, there at least is reality that will not dodge us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Rain, Reality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.203, Penguin

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• Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience, if we would trulier express our central and wide-related nature, instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride to which we have too long lent our eyes. Already that day exists for us, shines in on us at unawares, but the path of science and of letters is not the way into nature. The idiot, the Indian, the child, and unschooled farmer's boy, stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Eye, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.256, Library of America

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• In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

  Aravind Adiga

  Growing Up, Class, My Family

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• Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice of life being passed off as an authentic portrait of the country.

  Aravind Adiga

  Country, Writing, Class

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• Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.

  Aravind Adiga

  Country, Socialist Countries, Cities

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• In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fire, Race, Doe

  "The Indian Opinion" Newspaper, March 25, 1905.

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• Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passes my comprehension. Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population, and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Mixing, Suggestions

  Letter to Dr. Porter, Medical Officer of Health for Johannesburg, February 15, 1905.

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• A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Believe, Savages

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.25, Tara Publishing

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• Among our neighbors of Central and Southern America, we see the Caucasian mingled with the Indian and the African. They have the forms of free government, because they have copied them. To
  its benefits they have not attained, because that standard of civilization is above their race. Revolution succeeds Revolution, and the country mourns that some petty chief may triumph, and
  through a sixty days' government ape the rulers of the earth.

  Jefferson Davis

  Country, America, Race

  Jefferson Davis' speech, 1858.

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• People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.

  Salman Khurshid

  Writing, People, Accountability

  "‘Can’t be taken seriously till you are 70’". Interview with Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, www.telegraphindia.com. 1995.

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