Native Quotes - Page 12

• As not a native, I have the advantage of not seeing scenes habitually. I can see things fresh.

  Stephen Shore

  Scene, Advantage, Seeing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The danger is that you can wind up doing tourist pictures. I want to see it fresh and see the little bits of everyday life that a native might take for granted, but that are special to the place, while at the same time, not taking a picture that would be a tourist cliché.

  Stephen Shore

  Wind, Everyday, Special

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I get in the sun I get very tanned. You can't tell me from the native fishermen in Hawaii or Mexico.

  Desi Arnaz

  Mexico, Hawaii, Sun

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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• The only people that deserve to be called Americans are Native Americans, otherwise, I'm a Latino American, you know.... Anybody else... well where did you come from?

  Cristian Machado

  Native American, People, Latino

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• Do you think we care about the feelings of Native Americans when we celebrate Columbus Day? That's the day that the white man discovered a land where Indians had been living for a few thousand years.

  Carlos Mencia

  Native American, Men, Thinking

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• Now, we're Americans. Technically, who is from this country? Only the Indians, who we graciously let dwell on their native casinos.

  Greg Proops

  Country, Casinos

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• Immigrants have been coming here for a long time. The Americans that are afraid of others coming were immigrants once themselves, so they have a lot of nerve. We have a lot of nerve as a country. The only people that should have xenophobia are Native Americans. Everyone else should shut up.

  Godfrey

  Country, Xenophobia, Native American

  Interview with Bryce Rudow, thedailybanter.com. January 15, 2014.

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• Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries; or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.

  William Hazlitt

  Country, Rivers, Growth

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• I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries of comforts of life.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Father, Israel

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.45

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• I studied trumpet for almost 15 years and was performing with a professional concert marching band in parades and rodeos. I was headed back east to study music, and if I hadn't been intrigued with the Native American flute, I suppose I'd now be jockeying for first chair of the brass section of some orchestra, or perhaps I'd be teaching music in a school system.

  R. Carlos Nakai

  Teaching, Native American, School

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• I reached the age of 70, because I have cultivated an association of multicultural intellectuals who are informed and alert to whatever "tricknology" that's laid on us by the powers that be. These include White ethnic intellectuals- people who know their roots- as well as Native American, Asian American, Hispanic and Black intellectuals. These are thirty, forty-year associations with some of the best minds around. Minds that are ignored by the media.

  Ishmael Reed

  Native American, Media, Years

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• You've got to invite Native Americans to the table, and Asians, and Chicanos. You cannot keep us in the back room anymore and give us notations on paper saying this is what you deserve. You have to invite us to the table because America is ours, too.

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Native American, Deserve You, Giving

  Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.

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• Well, as a native, as a colonized people you do live in the in between. The thing is I'm native. But necessarily because I'm a member of the country, I'm also a White American.

  Sherman Alexie

  Country, White, People

  "Sherman Alexie on Living Outside Cultural Borders". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. April 12, 2013.

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• 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.

  Sherman Alexie

  Community, Feelings, Feeling Lost

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I am extremely conscious of my tribalism. And when you talk about tribalism, you talk about living in a black and white world. I mean, Native American tribalism sovereignty, even the political fight for sovereignty and cultural sovereignty is a very us versus them. And I think a lot of people in this country, especially European Americans and those descended from Europeans don't see themselves as tribal.

  Sherman Alexie

  Country, Native American, Mean

  "Sherman Alexie on Living Outside Cultural Borders". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. April 12, 2013.

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• I think a lot of the most interesting immigrant writing involves stepping outside of that old, dreary binary. Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker is a great example. Same goes for Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior.

  Junot Diaz

  Writing, Warrior, Thinking

  Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

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• You can create substances with other naturally grown substances and you can synthesize beautiful bouquets of flowers without spending an arm and a leg, using the citrus fruits, which are much more affordable than flowers, because you need so many flowers to create the essences. In this country [USA], there is not a traditional science of making it. The Native Americans never did it. They bundled the sage.

  Horst Rechelbacher

  Beautiful, Country, Flower

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities‚ but the White Earth reservation villages‚ and other tribal towns of Squaw Lake‚ Ponemah‚ Brookston in Minnesota‚ and Manderson‚ Wounded Knee and Wakpala (South Dakota) as well as Mandaree in North Dakota will mean hardships for a largely Native community.

  Winona LaDuke

  Mean, White, Lakes

  "Native And Rural Communities Face Devastating Post Office Closures" by Georgianne Nienaber, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2012.

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• The Cloud-Native Enterprise is a venture capitalist creating continuous innovation powered by Cloud Foundry.

  Colin Humphreys

  Creating, Clouds, Innovation

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• It is difficult to understand why statisticians commonly limit their inquiries to Averages, and do not revel in more comprehensive views. Their souls seem as dull to the charm of variety as that of the native of one of our flat English counties, whose retrospect of Switzerland was that, if its mountains could be thrown into its lakes, two nuisances would be got rid of at once.

  Francis Galton

  Lakes, Views, Average

  Natural Inheritance The Charms of Statistics (p. 62)

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• Orchestration is part of the very soul of the work. A work is thought out in terms of the orchestra, certain tone-colors being inseparable from it in the mind of its creator and native to it from the hour of its birth.

  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

  Color, Soul, Mind

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• If a man attains a high station in life, it is because he has acquired or was blessed with native ability as a salesman. Schooling, college degrees, intellect, brilliancy, are of no avail to the man who lacks the ability to attract the cooperative efforts of others, thus to create opportunities for himself.

  Napoleon Hill

  Blessed, Opportunity, College

  Napoleon Hill (2009). “How To Sell Your Way Through Life”, p.7, John Wiley and Sons

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• Native Americans were driven off their land. Lincoln even took part in the Black Hawk campaign against the Native Americans in Illinois. While they were being exterminated and driven off their land, Whites were collecting assets.

  Ishmael Reed

  Native American, Illinois, Land

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• [Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." That was a fact.

  Hal Holbrook

  Class, America, Criminals

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• The beliefs of Native people are no less powerful or important just because they focus on a different "form of magic."

  Joseph Boyden

  Powerful, People, Focus

  Source: therumpus.net

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