Native Quotes - Page 26

• I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Flower, Sea, Land

  Thabo Mbeki (1998). “Africa: the time has come : selected speeches”

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• The head is not more native to the heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 47

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• True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.

  Hugh Blair

  Reflection, Men, Views

  Hugh Blair (1824). “Sermons. ...: To which is Prefixed a Short Account of the Life and Character of the Author”, p.117

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• There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.

  John Oates

  Moving, Native American, Soul

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• My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses–the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions–which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Mirrors, Flying, Black

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.414, Vintage

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• My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my native land.

  James Stephens

  Land, Independence, Three

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• While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

  Calamity Jane

  Texas, August, Married

  Calamity Jane (1896). “Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane”

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• On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid the tsunami and earthquake victims.

  Masaharu Morimoto

  Grateful, Japan, Earthquakes

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

  Jared Polis

  Brother, Native American, Arrivals

  Jared Polis' at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• People wanna say that they're part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We're raised to believe that there's something better about not being fully black, something eccentric about it. I'm saying I used to tell girls that I was mixed, which is a bold-faced lie!

  Chance the Rapper

  Girl, Lying, Believe

  "Chance the Rapper remembers 'talking white' and fighting black on Acid rap" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. May 14, 2013.

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• Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Girl, Moon, Naive

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• Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state.

  Gerald McRaney

  Dad, House, Moved On

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• My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.

  Rita Wilson

  Mother, Father, Greek

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For most Native Americans, there's no more offensive name in English. That non-Native folks think they get to measure or decide what offends us is adding insult to injury.

  Suzan Shown Harjo

  Native American, Thinking, Names

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• You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.

  Paul Johnson

  Mass Transit, Arizona, Looks

  "You Know You're an Arizona Native, When". Book by Don Dedera, 1993.

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• Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly they make the same mistakes in their own speech, but they know-unconsciously, not as a set of rules they learned in school-when a sentence is incorrect.

  Peter Farb

  Mistake, School, Speech

  Peter Farb (2015). “Word Play: What Happens When People Talk”, p.258, Vintage

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• I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today.

  Chaske Spencer

  Mother, Father, Taken

  "Chaske Spencer, Actor (Twilight)". Interview with Gabriel Canada, www.racebending.com. October 31, 2010.

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• I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.

  Chaske Spencer

  Native American, Thinking, People

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• The native and untaught suggestions of inquisitive children do often offer things, that may set a considering man's thoughts on work. And I think there is frequently more to be learn'd from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed, and the prejudices of their education.

  John Locke

  Children, Men, Thinking

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely & Hume”, p.113, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die, you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Wisdom, Mind, Use

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• As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Children, Native American, Giving

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• Do right always. It will give you satisfaction in life.

  Wovoka

  Native American, Satisfaction In Life, Giving

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• What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

  Wade Davis

  Lonely, Children, Fate

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• If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

  Black Elk

  Native American, Would Be, Foolish

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• When the sun died, I went up to heaven and saw God and all the people who had died a long time ago. God told me to come back and tell my people they must be good and love one another, and not fight, or steal, or lie. He gave me this dance to give to my people.

  Wovoka

  Lying, Native American, Fighting

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