Native American Quotes - Page 20

• Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

  Michael Tippett

  Art, Score, Music Is

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• Puerto Ricans are Americans. We've been American citizens since 1917. We fought the same battles, made the same sacrifices. We've lost our land in the same way that Native Americans lost their land, and we've been the subject of discrimination and racism in the same way that African Americans have. We've suffered the full spectrum of oppression, and yet we've been off the map 4,000 miles away so we haven't even been able to argue our case.

  Nelson Antonio Denis

  Sacrifice, Land, Racism

  "The Lost History of Puerto Rico’s Independence Movement". Interview with AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2015.

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• The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Healing, People, Feelings

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.192, U of Nebraska Press

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• I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a book culture. That's why I'm trying to make movies. Indians go to movies; Indians own video recorders.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Thinking, Trying

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, www.english.illinois.edu. 2001.

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• The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.

  John Baldacci

  Community, Priorities, Administration

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

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  White, Simplicity, Poverty

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.4, World Wisdom, Inc

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• This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Dream, Cities, City Walls

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• Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

  Jim Bishop

  Funny, Retirement, Golf

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• I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't find anything. So it's a wide-open field.

  Christopher Moore

  Reflection, Fields, Trumpets

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• We are now going to the Lamanites, to whom we intend to be messengers of instruction... We will show them that in consequence of their transgressions a curse has been inflicted upon them - in the darkness of their skins. We will have intermarriages with them, they marrying our young women, and we taking their young squaws to wife. By these means it is the will of the Lord that the curse of their color shall be removed and they restored to their pristine beauty.

  Brigham Young

  Mean, Color, Wife

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

  Dave Attell

  Kids, Pardon Me, Indian

  "Random Rules: Dave Attell". Interview with Sean O'Neal, music.avclub.com. February 01, 2008.

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• In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin America, yes, But that's not all that different in inspiration from that of America, or of Europe. One must go further. You don't even have to go too far in terms of geography - you can start with the Native Americans and listen to their poetry.

  Chinua Achebe

  Latin, Inspiration, Europe

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “There Was a Country: A Memoir”, p.51, Penguin

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• I feel sorry for people of good heart who have never had a chance to learn the realities of Native American everything - not just our history but the sweetness and the beauty and the reasons why were so close to Mother Earth.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Mother, Sorry, Heart

  "The Fierce, Childlike Creativity of Buffy Sainte-Marie". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2015.

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• I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that... I had no reason to want to copy anybody else... All I had was my originality.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Song, Issues, Singing

  "The Fierce, Childlike Creativity of Buffy Sainte-Marie". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2015.

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• I think that the whole stigma of the name may still burn deep with some of the Native people, but there are some that it doesn't bother. They actually think it brings enlightenment to the contributions that the Native Americans had in the establishment of our country, but I haven't come up with an idea. I'm not saying the name "Redskins" wasn't derogatory, but the actual changing the name to the Washington Redskins was an honorary move.

  Donte Stallworth

  Country, Moving, Thinking

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