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Traveling between Reardan and Wellpinit, between the little white town and the reservation, I always felt like a stranger. I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other. It was like being Indian was my job, but it was only a part-time job. And it didn't pay well at all. ~ Sherman Alexie
Being Indian quotes by Sherman Alexie
Lots of times growing up, I'd just try to do something myself because I believed that being a boy, and being Indian, I should just know how to do things. -Will Bird, Through Black Spruce ~ Joseph Boyden
Being Indian quotes by Joseph Boyden
The Indian is a human being. ~ George Crook
Being Indian quotes by George Crook
My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up with that. ~ Ashley Bell
Being Indian quotes by Ashley Bell
I like all things natural, and I love being Indian. So clothes-wise, I love wearing Indian. Does my wearing a salwar kameez instead of a dress make me less of an actor, less of a person? ~ Vidya Balan
Being Indian quotes by Vidya Balan
When I started doing standup when I was 17, I was talking about being Indian and specifically ethnic jokes. Straightforward stuff that was fairly ignorant that I knew would get the laugh. It wasn't flipping stereotypes; it was using them. ~ Hari Kondabolu
Being Indian quotes by Hari Kondabolu
Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere. ~ Tommy Orange
Being Indian quotes by Tommy Orange
We were hockey gypsies, heading down another gravel road every weekend, plowing into the heart of that magnificent northern landscape. We never gave a thought to being deprived as we travelled, to being shut out of the regular league system. We never gave a thought to being Indian. Different. We only thought of the game and the brotherhood that bound us together off the ice, in the van, on the plank floors of reservation houses, in the truck stop diners where if we'd won we had a little to splurge on a burger and soup before we hit the road again. Small joys. All of them tied together, entwined to form an experience we would not have traded for any other. We were a league of nomads, mad for the game, mad for the road, mad for ice and snow, an Arctic wind on our faces and a frozen puck on the blade of our sticks. ~ Richard Wagamese
Being Indian quotes by Richard Wagamese
At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians have no cultural power. We're still placed in the past. So we're either in the past or we're only viewed through casinos. I know a lot more about being white than you know about being Indian. ~ Sherman Alexie
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Mick had once come across one of Wilson't books and was surprised to see his face on the back cover. Mick was even more surprised when he read the book. It was pretty good, although Mick was kind of tired of hearing about Indians. Still, Mick thought, Aristotle Little Hawk was a good Indian, even if he was just some character in a book. He wished more Indians like Little Hawk hung out in the bar. He knew Wilson claimed he had some Indian blood, said so inside the book. But Mick did not buy that shit. Mick's great-grandmother was a little bit Indian, but that did not make him Indian. Besides, who the hell would want to be Indian when you could just as easily be white? ~ Sherman Alexie
Being Indian quotes by Sherman Alexie
Being Indian-American, I have tremendous potential to grow facial hair. ~ Vivek Murthy
Being Indian quotes by Vivek Murthy
The woman leads a twofold existence indeed, the depth of her social ostracism being equally only by her stoic endurance. To live in harmony with the society of man, to conform with men's demands, she resigns herself to a self-effacement that is demeaning, she sacrifices herself. ~ Thomas Sankara
Being Indian quotes by Thomas Sankara
The secret to always being in the right place at the right time is knowing that you always are. Mike Dooley ~ Bruce Van Horn
Being Indian quotes by Bruce Van Horn
Two movements in human life are important: (a) deep reluctance to let loose of a world that has passed away, and (b) capacity to embrace a new world being given. ~ Walter Brueggemann
Being Indian quotes by Walter Brueggemann
I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books]. ~ Alice Walker
Being Indian quotes by Alice Walker
None OF Days Are Ever Promised ... So Don't Waste Another, Being Angry And Upset Over What Was Done To You, You Don't Have Or Should Have Been. ~ Timothy Pina
Being Indian quotes by Timothy Pina
In the deepest, most central place of our being, we don't want to cross God and our not wanting to is the beginning of wisdom. ~ Ken Wilson
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Write. If you've always dreamed of being a writer, write. Even if you think what you write is crap, write. You might be surprised by what happens! ~ Stephen Woods
Being Indian quotes by Stephen Woods
I've got to learn o take rest and shelter - here, there, anywhere - with as much composure and ease as I accept the open road. It is the basic contest between Being and Doing, focused in my life now as never before. ~ Irv Thomas
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I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publication was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways. ~ Ashwin Sanghi
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Changing? Aren't we a little delusional? You've always been scarred and you always will be. Well you're not really the best thinker. Why waste time trying to mend what's broken? It's impossible as trying to keep it from being broken in the first place. You want kids, don't you? Abused people turn abusive, it's a fact. Why? Becayse you love them? Didn't I love you? But I've hurt you still. Love has nothing to do with being abusive. You've always been bruised and cut and it's just… pointless to try and change that… now. ~ Dee Juusan
Being Indian quotes by Dee Juusan
There's always a way to be open and honest while also being respectful. Anyone who behaves other wise is just being lazy. ~ Lilly Singh
Being Indian quotes by Lilly Singh
Being stuck in here sucks, and I'm scared. But I appreciate you. Nurses are in and out of here all day, but no one takes the time you do to make me feel comfortable. I notice you tidying my messes and watering my stupid flowers, and it means a lot. So...thank you.
–HJP>
I read it again. And again. My throat closed. Other patients had made me feel this way, my little dude Jason being the most recent, but knowing that I'd successfully made Harrison feel comfortable, feel special... knowing a man who wrote beautiful words for a living had taken the time to write to me, just for doing my job...
I ran my thumb over the three letters that made up his initials.
I looked up at him. His right hand rested on his face, palm flat, fingers touching the curve of skin between his lips and jaw. With the smallest smile imaginable, he moved his arm down and out toward me.
Thank you ~ Peter Styles
Being Indian quotes by Peter Styles
You have to be patient. Litigants are emotionally involved - they're suing or being sued, or they've been in an accident or they're charged (with a crime). They are not very objective about their situation. ~ Steven Pacey
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched. ~ Patrick Kane
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The advantage of being celibate is that when one sees a pretty girl one does not need to grieve over having an ugly one back home. ~ Paul Leautaud
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A voice said: One. One. One, two. One, two. Then the footsteps went back into the distance. After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang. That would just be noise, and all that noise could create is more noise and a cosmos full of random particles. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord. Everything, all together, streaming out in one huge rush that contained within itself, like reverse fossils, everything that it was going to be. And, zigzagging through the expanding cloud, alive, that first wild live music. This had shape. It had spin. It had rhythm. It had a beat, and you could dance to it. Everything did. ~ Terry Pratchett
Being Indian quotes by Terry Pratchett
To be successful, you have to have quantity of quality. ~ Mark Frauenfelder
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Heath said, cold as ice, cold as a void, so cold it burned her worse than any fire. "Don't you know? Not wanting to and not being able to are not the same things. ~ Megan Hart
Being Indian quotes by Megan Hart
I always felt like I had to prove myself as a child, probably because other kids teased me about being a 'faggot. ~ Dean H. Hamer
Being Indian quotes by Dean H. Hamer
We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull. ~ Joseph Addison
Being Indian quotes by Joseph Addison
When you first get out of doing a show for a long time where you played a teenager, casting directors and producers all still look at you as being the character that you played for so long. ~ Danielle Fishel
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She told me it's called the Maka Hanya Haramita Shingyo,69 which means something like the Great Most Excellent Wisdom Heart Sutra. The only part I remember goes like this: Shiki fu i ku, ku fu i shiki.70 It's pretty abstract. Old Jiko tried to explain it to me, and I don't know if I understood it correctly or not, but I think it means that nothing in the world is solid or real, because nothing is permanent, and all things - including trees and animals and pebbles and mountains and rivers and even me and you - are just kind of flowing through for the time being. ~ Ruth Ozeki
Being Indian quotes by Ruth Ozeki
Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are. ~ Katherine Dunn
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If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.' ~ Roger Rosenblatt
Being Indian quotes by Roger Rosenblatt
If you dreamt of being successful and don't try even once for it, you already failed as soon as you woke up! ~ Palak Kundra
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The man at the end of the bar was looking at me. ... Should I get drunk and sleep with him now? But I could see that I would regret that so much I would want to die after. I didn't want to get involved with anyone, and I didn't want to bear being alone with the warmth left by someone long gone. ~ Fuminori Nakamura
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But it's fun being alive, isn't it? I feel as if I'd only got to stretch up my hands to all those stars and catch as many of them as I want to. ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
Being Indian quotes by Elizabeth Von Arnim
The root destruction of religion in the country, which throughout the twenties and thirties was one of the most important goals of the GPU-NKVD, could be realized only by mass arrests of Orthodox believers. Monks and nuns, whose black habits had been a distinctive feature of Old Russian life, were intensively rounded up on every hand, placed under arrest, and sent into exile. They arrested and sentenced active laymen. The circles kept getting bigger, as they raked in ordinary believers as well, old people and particularly women, who were the most stubborn believers of all and who, for many long years to come, would be called 'nuns' in transit prisons and in camps.

True, they were supposedly being arrested and tried not for their actual faith but for openly declaring their convictions and for bringing up their children in the same spirit. As Tanya Khodkevich wrote:

You can pray freely
But just so God alone can hear.

(She received a ten-year sentence for these verses.) A person convinced that he possessed spiritual truth was required to conceal it from his own children! In the twenties the religious education of children was classified as a political crime under Article 58-10 of the Code--in other words, counterrevolutionary propaganda! True, one was permitted to renounce one's religion at one's trial: it didn't often happen but it nonetheless did happen that the father would renounce his religion and remain at home to raise the children wh ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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This is good and hot."
"I remember you used to say that about someone I know."
He shakes his head. "Give it up, Scotts. That boat sailed, sank, and got towed."
"But ... "
"No. It ain't going to happen."
He sits down next to me and I curl up next to him.
"Nicky, it's hard being a child of your divorce and probably the reason somebody is dead."
Nick raises my head with his hands and looks at me and smiles.
"Life bites, baby girl."
" ... and sucks."
Amen. ~ Angela Johnson
Being Indian quotes by Angela Johnson
I'm fine," Georgie said.
"I can tell. Fine people are always telling everybody how fine they are. ~ Rainbow Rowell
Being Indian quotes by Rainbow Rowell
Kuan Yin Speaks on The Law of the Spiritualization (Transformation) of Matter: "The earth is trying to teach humans that everything is spirit ... Being human is an opportunity to bring spirit into all that is material ... The quality and intensity of resonance emanated from a given point is thus attracted back. When one brings spirit into the human realm, it can spiritualize matter. Matter can then become lighter, (indeed liberated), not as dense as before."-Kuan Yin ~ Hope Bradford
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You think I didn't choose these clothes and this haircut specifically to avoid being stuffed into one pigeonhole or another? I'm gender fluid. Not stupid ~ Jeff Garvin
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People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. ~ Milan Kundera
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It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave. ~ William Shenstone
Being Indian quotes by William Shenstone
I realize that there are many variables outside my control in my quest, but focusing on the big goal down the road really motivates me. To help me stay focused, I set micro-goals such as races or training achievements that bring me one step closer to being at my best for major goals ~ Lance Armstrong
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He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world. ~ Richard Preston
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The perk about being the quiet girl was not many people really got to know you, which left you the advantage of surprise if you ever decided to switch gears in situations just like this. ~ Penelope Douglas
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Sometimes scientists change their minds. New developments cause a rethink. If this bothers you, consider how much damage is being done to the world by people for whom new developments do not cause a rethink. ~ Terry Pratchett
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