Native Quotes - Page 17

• We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

  Audre Lorde

  Black, Literature, Study

  "Sister Outsider" by Audre Lorde, ("Eye to Eye"), 1984.

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• It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Presence Of Mind, Emergencies

  Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Speech A”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

  Miriam Makeba

  Crush, Nature, Racism

  "In praise of ... Miriam Makeba", www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.

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• I can speak Esperanto like a native.

  Spike Milligan

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

  Toni Morrison

  Native American, Enjoy, American Writer

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• I know the activists I deal with, we sort of try and check each other to make sure that we haven't gone native, that you come to Washington thinking it's a cesspool, you don't want to end up thinking it's really a hot tub and getting used to it. So that's something one has to keep an eye on all the time.

  Grover Norquist

  Eye, Thinking, Trying

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• We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

  Rand Paul

  Black And White, Rights, Liberty

  "Sen. Rand Paul's Speech at Howard University". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 10, 2013.

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• There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

  Steven Pinker

  Intellectual, Guilt, Western Culture

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• Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Laughter, Men

  'Ode on Solitude' (written c.1700, when aged about twelve)

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• Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Struggle, Native American, Rights

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• The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Country, Heart, Men

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• It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant.

  ASAP Rocky

  New York, Eye, People

  "Thinking Globally, Rapping Locally" by Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. October 12, 2011.

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• I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.

  Susan Sarandon

  New York, My Family, Feels

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• Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

  Edith Sitwell

  Baby, Water, Hot

  As quoted in "20,000 Quips & Quotes" by Evan Esa, 1995.

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• Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.

  David Suzuki

  Garden, Years, Community

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• Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

  James Thurber

  Native American, Rewards, Comedy

  "A Thurber Garland". Book by James Thurber. Preface, 1955.

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• If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the way to a small screen experience. That's why Twitter is performing so well on mobile.

  Fred Wilson

  Way, Scales, Performing

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• Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Believe, Men, Role Models

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• Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Character, Artist, Light

  Jennifer Fandel, Frank Lloyd Wright (2005). “Frank Lloyd Wright”, The Creative Company

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• Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

  Felix Dennis

  Ecosystems, Tree, Important

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• For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe.

  Paul Stamets

  Years, Europe, Mushrooms

  "Agarikon: Ancient Mushroom for Modern Medicine" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2012.

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• He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of New Mexico. It was like a great violet velvet mantle thrown down in the sun; all the shades that the dyers and weavers of Italy and France strove for through centuries, the violet that is full of rose colour and is yet not lavender; the blue that becomes almost pink and then retreats again into sea-dark purple—the true Episcopal colour and countless variations of it.

  Willa Cather

  Flower, Dark, Sea

  Willa Cather (1999). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.279, U of Nebraska Press

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• Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances.

  C.D. Wright

  Labels, Vagrants, Sticks

  C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.37, Copper Canyon Press

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• The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.

  Edward Gibbon

  Errors, Race, Long

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.237, Modern Library

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• As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.

  William S. Burroughs

  Children, Boys, Yellow

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.16, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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