Indian Quotes

Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.

An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign.

The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.

All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.

They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.

We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.

While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don't think of myself as bringing to the table a lot of 'women's issues.' I don't feel the need to write about maternity. I grew up thinking that the talented people in comedy were hard-joke writers.

There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone.

The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.

I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.

In the 1980s, we were advised, why don't you follow Reaganomics or Thatcherite economics. We said, yes, there are good points, let's see how we can fit them in the Indian economy. Every country has its own way of moving forward.

Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.

My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.

I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not.

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.

The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.

Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.

The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves.

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.