When I first decided to be a writer, that meant dealing with preoccupations and concerns that took little account of Indian traditions. I saw India's past as part of an antiquity rendered irrelevant by modernity, which with its science, nation states, free enterprises, and consumer societies was supposed to have solved all problems.
I have become an environmentalist, because it is over the environment that the last of the Indian Wars will be fought.
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.
You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.
From what I hear is happening, young Indian boxers have started to do well on the world stage and started to gain the attention of the general audience.
I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik.
There are little Indian girls out there who look up to me, and I never want to belittle the honor of being an inspiration to them. But while I’m talking about why I’m so different, white male show runners get to talk about their art. I always get asked, ‘Where do you get your confidence?’ I think people are well meaning, but it’s pretty insulting. Because what it means to me is, ‘You, Mindy Kaling, have all the trappings of a very marginalized person. You’re not skinny, you’re not white, you’re a woman. Why on earth would you feel like you’re worth anything?’
The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel.
Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.
the voices of our ancestors telling of our glorious past, our culture, and what it means to be an Indian.
Yes, I am Irish and Indian, which would be the coolest blend in the world if my parents were around to teach me how to be Irish and Indian. But they're not here and haven't been for years, so I'm not really Irish or Indian. I am a blank sky, a human solar eclipse.
Indians were frequently off their reservations.
She's Cherokee Indian, which is great 'cause whenever we have sex, it rains.
I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint.
But, on more accounts than one, I had had enough of moose-hunting. I had not come to the woods for this purpose, nor had I foreseen it, though I had been willing to learn how the Indian manvred; but one moose killed was as good, if not as bad, as a dozen.
In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles.