Top 1200 Native American Culture Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.

... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other" revolutions (the American revolution being considered unique and somehow unrepeatable anywhere else in the world) have remained constant, have dictated, have obscured, the realities of empire, while apologists for overseas American interests have insisted on American innocence, doing good, fighting for freedom.

I think it's particularly a distinctively American concept that resonates with American culture through biker culture. A motorcycle is an independent thing. You're like, 'I don't want to ride in a car with this person. I want to be independent and ride by myself. But, let's ride in a group. Let's be independent, together.'

We don't have a superhero culture. Comic books and superheroes are part of American culture. We have 'Amar Chitrakatha,' etc.

When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.

My favourite moment from the Oscars was when Brando didn't attend and sent a Native American woman to talk about Wounded Knee. She delivered a very unpopular and lengthy monologue about the injustice for indigenous people in North America. It was one of the greatest moments in American television.

Teachers and librarians can be the most effective advocates for diversifying children's and young adult books. When I speak to publishers, they're going to expect me to say that I would love to see more books by Native American authors and African-American authors and Arab-American authors. But when a teacher or librarian says this to publishers, it can have a profound effect.

To prevent the death of mothers across our country, we must expand research, implement researched best practices, and fiercely work to understand why African American, Hispanic, and Native American mothers die at even higher rates than white mothers.

African American culture is American culture.

The American culture especially, and Western culture in general, urges us to not only become the best that we can be, but also win against the competition.

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.

If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not - you are not smiling about it.

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. I imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. As for me, it definitely was my native literary culture. Science fiction was where I'm from, but on the way to now, I went through a lot of other territory, and I wasn't really that culturally conventional an SF writer when I started.

Growing up, my parents were very much about the Egyptian culture. They never really wanted to assimilate in American culture.

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

Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.

I have built my world through Native American mythology.

The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.

I grew up in a border state. I think immigration is an essential part of American history and American culture.

On a national level there is a tendency to portray Latino culture as a monolithic entity, which is a really inaccurate way of seeing ourselves. There is as much diversity and uniqueness within the Latino culture as there is in any other kind of American culture.

On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized.

American food is the food of immigrants. You go back a couple of hundred years, and we were all immigrants, unless we're going to talk about Native American cuisine.

For people like me, who have got their flags and wars mixed up, I think it should be pointed out that there may have been only one War of 1812, but there are four distinct versions of it - the American, the British, the Canadian, and the Native American.

I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me.

American culture is so open compared to Korean culture, which is really conservative.

Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio - empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how - has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home - within the family, so to speak - our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

At the restaurant we cook with a respect to the native culture of Australia whilst still respecting and embracing settlement.

People constantly express surprise that Americans are so hot for Shakespeare. But Britain's culture is American culture, too.

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

My mom is African-American, Native-American, Irish, and Creole, and my father is of Jewish, Russian, and Polish descent. It's made me who I am. Because of my diverse background, I think I can relate to many different people, different stories, and different communities.

I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands.

I'm Native American, so it's in my blood to always want brothers and friends. I'm a good brotherhood guy.

From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.

I had some prejudices and preconceptions about American culture and trash culture, but the artisan food there is not all hot dog stands.

Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this.

It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's.

When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

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

I'm proud of my Native American heritage.

I am honored to have Ajamu Baraka as a running mate. I think he brings enormous credibility in the disenfranchised communities, not just African American but Latino, Asian American and Native American. He is a recognized advocate for racial justice, economic justice and human rights, and I think this conversation is only just begun. It is very important.

I'm interested in Native American and African American stories, and LGBTQ stories and stories of persons of mixed heritage. These are the stories I want to see onscreen and on the pages.

There's a kind of integrity to being an observer of a culture. I think Canadians have that privilege innately. We are, like, the observers of the American culture.

[Seeing an ornately chained Native American for the first time] What Eden have they torn you from?

I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.

A lot of native culture has been destroyed. So you already feel lost inside your culture. And then you add up feeling lost and insignificant inside the larger culture. So you end up feeling lost squared. And to never be recognized, to never have any power, you know, other minority communities actually have a lot of economic, cultural power.

American music culture is black culture.

American culture is kind of a universal culture, I guess. It's things Greeks grew up with, common references you can use. It's very interesting.

While Donald Trump is busy insulting one group after another, Hillary Clinton understands that our diversity is one of our greatest strengths. Yes. We become stronger when black and white, Latino, Asian-American, Native American - when all of us stand together.

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.

People take pride in being Irish-American and Italian-American. They have a particular culture that infuses the whole culture and makes it richer and more interesting. I think if we can expand that attitude to embrace African-Americans and Latino-Americans and Asian-Americans, then we will be in a position where all our kids can feel comfortable with the worlds they are coming out of, knowing they are part of something larger.

I'm a Native American actress.

Black women I'm talking to you, because it's not white women, it's not Latino, it's not Native American - I checked, it's y'all. The self hate is ridiculous. Why do you hate yourself so much, why do you hate your texture, why do you hate your culture, why do you hate your history?

I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture.

Shakespeare is as naturally a part of American culture as it is the British culture; the Americans have a natural interest in their heritage.

Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.