Native Quotes - Page 23

• English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And American literature should be a discipline, certainly growing from England and France, Germany, Spain, Denmark, and the Native traditions, particularly because those helped form the American canon. Those are our backgrounds. And then we'd be doing it the way it ought to be done. And someday I hope that it will be.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Views, Ethnicity, Discipline

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• In the Native American tradition... a man, if he's a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow, he helps raise the kids, and he protects the people. His entire life is toward balance and cooperativeness. The ideal of manhood is the same as the ideal of womanhood. You are autonomous, self-directing, and responsible for the spiritual, social and material life of all those with whom you live.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Spiritual, Kids, Native American

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• What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only after we have left home; it is really only with other people that we become Irishmen.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Home, Land, People

  "The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde". Book by Peter Ackroyd, 1983.

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• Many people love grey squirrels, but the reality is that they are a real problem for some of our most threatened native species, like the red squirrel and dormouse. It is not realistic, practical or even desirable to completely eradicate grey squirrels, but we must control them effectively.

  Jim Knight

  Real, Squirrels, People

  "Grey squirrels targeted" by James Meikle, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2006.

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• I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear and doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry my being is gasping for breath - these are not my native air. But in faith and confidence I breath freely - these are my native air.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Fear, Air, Land

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• Some Native people suggest that one should test how cold the hands are by touching the thumb to the little finger of the same hand. As soon as you cannot carry out this exercise you are reaching a dangerous state of incapacity and you should immediately take steps to warm up.

  Mors Kochanski

  Exercise, Hands, People

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• I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.

  Lucian Freud

  Art, Would Be, Use

  "Lucian Freud Paintings". Book by Robert Hughes, 1982.

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• We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is no art. Cosmopolitanism - a world in which things lose their color and form, and words lose their significance. We love in our past all that we consider native, wonderful and fair.

  Ilya Ehrenburg

  Art, Past, Color

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• Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do is ban the Old Testament. There's nothing like it in the literary canon that exalts genocide, to that extent. And it's not a joke either. Like where I live, New England, the people who liberated it from the native scourge were religious fundamentalist lunatics, who came waving the holy book, declaring themselves to be the children of Israel who are killing the Amalekites, like God told them.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Religious, Children

  Talk at the University of Houston, Texas, October 18, 2002.

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• I'm proud of my Native American heritage.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Native American, Heritage, Proud

  "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien", www.cnn.com. May 14, 2012.

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• Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Native American, Stories, Born

  "Who is Elizabeth Warren?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 13, 2012.

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• I think the worst one [indian mascot] is the Cleveland Indians' Big Chief Wahoo. It's just a red face on a baseball with a big, toothy grin. It's the Sambo of all other offensive mascots. I have never seen a Native American smile that hard before, not even at a casino opening.

  Wanda Sykes

  Baseball, Native American, Thinking

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• The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.

  Amiri Baraka

  Ideas, Differences, World

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• We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings.

  John Trudell

  Native American, Race, People

  "Reel Injun". Documentary, Western, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later and they still cant see us. We are still invisible.

  John Trudell

  Native American, Years, Savages

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• Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads. It has been woven over many centuries by the patience and sacrifice of countless liberty-loving men and women. It serves as a cloak for the protection of poor and rich, of black and white, of Jew and Gentile, of foreign and native born. Let us not tear it asunder. For no man knows, once it is destroyed, where or when man will find its protective warmth again.

  Wendell Willkie

  Life, Strong, Black And White

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• Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens (from the anonymous poets to the part-time English teachers), and its expansive indigenous landscape, as well as he does. Mason's poetry is humorous when he wants to be quirky, heartbreaking when he wants to be eloquent, and though he moves effortlessly into other moods and geographies, he always returns to his first and most enduring love (and to what he knows best)-his homeland.

  Rigoberto Gonzalez

  Teacher, Humorous, Moving

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• I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.

  Jim Harrison

  Writing, Michigan, States

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• Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.

  Joe Baca

  Native American, Government, Land

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• I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth and, one day, disappear - flowing from an origin that has been forgotten toward an end that will never be.

  Miriam Makeba

  One Day, Looks, Obstacles

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• The final goal ... is to grasp the native's point of view,
  his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Views, Goal, Vision

  Bronisław Malinowski (2016). “Argonauts of the Western Pacific”, p.60, Booklassic

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• America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Native American, People, Made

  "The Great Migration & ‘The Warmth Of Other Suns’: Isabel Wilkerson On The African American Immigrant Story". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2010.

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• Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth.... Architecture aims at Eternity.

  Christopher Wren

  Country, Passion, People

  Sir Christopher Wren (1942). “The City Churches, Vestry Minutes and Churchwardens' Accounts: St Mary's, Ingestre, Staffordshire; All Saints' and Sessions House, Northampton; the Royal Hospital, Chelsea; the Church and Almshouses, Farley, Wiltshire; the Sheldonian Theatre and Tom Tower, Oxford; the Market House, Abingdon, Berkshire; the Bridge, St. John's College, Cambridge; the New School, Eton; Kensington Palace; the Royal Observatory, Greenwich; Morden and Bromley Colleges; and the Five Tracts on Architecture by Sir Chr. Wren. Drawings, Engravings and Photographs ...”

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• I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Food, Character

  Letter to Sarah Bache, January 26, 1784.

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• I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed.

  Gustav Mahler

  Austria, World, Homeless

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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