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“In the native literatures of North America there aren't any novels. Instead, the major genre is myth. And myths are stories that are fundamentally about the world, not about human individuals. A myth needn't include any humans at all. If it does include them, they're usually minor characters - imaginary humans sent out like scouts to report back on what's happening in the mythworld, but not central participants in the action.”

World Character Action Literature Individual Novel Myth Native Imaginary

Author:Robert Bringhurst

“The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in the world and our relations with the world.”

World Literature Violence Relation Acknowledge Native Sunlight Native American American Literature

Author:Robert Bringhurst

“I spent a lot of time with some native Hawaiians who protest being part of the United States and literally carry protest signs saying "We are not Americans." And they have no real warmth for being the 50th state.”

Real Native Protest Warmth

Author:Sarah Vowell

“I think the Native Americans had the right idea about preserving and respecting the earth. Not just using it up. We are not the center of the universe and that we think we are will most likely be the end of us. Then nature will go on its way, with humans only being a faint ugly memory. And yes I am fond of animals or most of them.”

Thinking Earth Universe Memories Animal Ugly Native Native American

Author:John Lurie

“For Native Americans, the most shameful and powerful corrective gesture is to literally and physically turn one's back upon a person who has transgressed, and then after they've been banished for a while, they come back into the circle and the members of the tribe say every good thing that person has ever done, because they have to be welcomed back.”

Done Powerful Good Things Very Good Native Native American Shameful

Author:Ashley Judd

“Southern food derives its strength from many cultures. It's a melding of food cultures from Native Americans, enslaved African-Americans, and Europeans.”

Culture Native Southern Native American

Author:Marcie Cohen Ferris

“For me space rock is something that takes you out of yourself and out of your normal realm. And if space happens to be that inner space or outer space it's a very personal thing. I think that mantra is space music. I think that Native American tribal drumming is space music. Anything that allows you to go inward to go outward and to move within a space that is not normal to your reality.”

Thinking Reality Moving Native Native American Outer Space

Author:David W. Marsden

“I've always said that the big difference between South America and North America with regard to the native population is that in North America they raped them and killed them, and in South America they raped them and married them. The mix was much greater, and that was very good.”

Married Very Good Native

Author:Martin Amis

“My work to me is more like what the Native Americans say: When we walk upon the earth, we always place our feet very carefully upon the ground, because we know the faces of our future generations are looking up at us from below, and we never forget them. I think as a culture today we've forgotten them. This work is a way to help us remember them. It's a way for us not only to find meaning in our individual lives, but to extend that approach all across the planet. Because if we don't, we won't have a planet.”

Thinking Helping Today Earth Remember Culture Individual Forget Forgotten Native Never Forget Our Future Native American Find Me Future Generation

Author:Wayne Dyer

“I do know that there have been many Native people - I don't like to call them "Native Americans," I guess, definitely not "Indians" - I've seen and read a lot about there's a big number of Natives that don't mind the Redskins name and they actually embrace it. Although there are a number of groups as well that are opposed to it.”

People Mind Embrace Native Native American

Author:Donte Stallworth

“I think that the whole stigma of the name may still burn deep with some of the Native people, but there are some that it doesn't bother. They actually think it brings enlightenment to the contributions that the Native Americans had in the establishment of our country, but I haven't come up with an idea. I'm not saying the name "Redskins" wasn't derogatory, but the actual changing the name to the Washington Redskins was an honorary move.”

People Thinking Country Moving Enlightenment Bother Native Native American Stigma

Author:Donte Stallworth

“In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.”

Song Native Melody Divided Destined Hungary

Author:Franz Liszt

“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.”

Has Beens Literature Black Study Habit Native Tenderness Black Women Stolen

Author:Audre Lorde

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

Men Mind Native Metals Tested Emergencies Presence Of Mind Metal Detectors

Book:Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Speech A

Source: Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Speech A

“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.”

Looks Might Spirit Nature Greater Racism Weight South Size Crush Native Racist Ants

Author:Miriam Makeba

“American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.”

Want Seems Moving Goal Lines Land Football Balls East Soccer Opponents Native Score Native American American Football Settlers

Author:David Mamet

“Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.”

World Should Form Proud Musical Native Native American

Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov

“I can speak Esperanto like a native.”

I Can Funny Speak Humorous Witty Native Esperanto

Author:Spike Milligan

“Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.”

Enjoy Native Native American American Writer

Author:Toni Morrison

“In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings.”

Hands Force Cities Doors Meetings Mythology Native Council Fanatics County Colorado Petitions Boulders Fracking Commissioners City Council

Author:Bob Beauprez

“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.”

Thinking Knows Want Trying Ends Eye Used Deals Gone Havens Hot Checks Native Activist Tubs Hot Tub

Author:Grover Norquist

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

Individual Black White Poor Liberty Rich Rights Embrace Native Immigrants Black And White Rich And Poor Individual Liberty Constitutional Rights

Author:Rand Paul

“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.”

Culture Modern Intellectual Guilt Western Acknowledge Native Treatment Western Culture Intellectual Life

Author:Steven Pinker

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

Men Care Happiness Joy Wish Air Laughter Bounds Breathe Native Acres

Author:Alexander Pope

“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.”

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

Men Mind Heart Doe Country Speech Remains Native Accents Native Country

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

People Giving Eye New York Tears Give Me Native Arrogant Stubborn Props

Author:ASAP Rocky

“Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.”

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

Feels New York My Family Native New Yorkers

Author:Susan Sarandon

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.”

“There is no death, only a change of worlds.”

Source: Answering Chief Seattle

“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.”

Water Baby Elements Hot Trials Native Hot Water Baby Boy

Author:Edith Sitwell

“I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.”

Faces Optimism Blessed Perseverance Native Stubborn

Book:My Beloved World

Source: My Beloved World

“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.”

Years Important Sometimes Community Millions Conditions Bird Garden Climate Species Locals Rely Soil Native Insects Indigenous Wildlife

Author:David Suzuki

“When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.”

“Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.”

“Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.”

“I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.”

People Book Facts Felt Information Native Providing Decency

Author:Studs Terkel

“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.”

Virtue Comedy Rewards Speed Curious Native Urges Native American Composition Graphic

Author:James Thurber

“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.”

Facts Literature Politics Class Figures Congress Corruption Criminals Native

Author:Mark Twain

“The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.”

Giving Earth Common Alive Land Son Brother Creatures Ethics Native Reverence Traits Primitive Native American Loving Life Elementals

Book:The quiet crisis and the next generation

Source: The quiet crisis and the next generation

“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.”

Ifs Way Wells Screens Scales Performing Native Ads Units Mobile

Author:Fred Wilson

“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.”

Ifs Men World Believe Literature Greater Dangerous Example Models Towns Pursuit Native Role Models Aspire Pursuit Of Knowledge

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!”

Hands Heaven Nations Blessing Spring Plenty League Native Joyful Commerce Olives Descending

Book:Daniel Boone: His Own Story

Source: Daniel Boone: His Own Story

“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.”

Character Light Artist Environment Building Married Native Spiders Qualified Spinning Lightness

Book:Frank Lloyd Wright

Source: Frank Lloyd Wright

“Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.”

Important Tree Native Ecosystems

Author:Felix Dennis

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

Years America Growth Europe Forests Native Unusual Mushrooms North America

Author:Paul Stamets

“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.”

Sides Dark Sun Growing Sea Century Flower Lows Blue Rose Hills France Colour Native Thrown Shade Mexico Retreat Violet Purple Variation Velvet Lavender New Mexico Weavers

Book:Death Comes for the Archbishop

Source: Death Comes for the Archbishop

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