Indian Quotes

I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in the Indian world. I have to be white every day.

Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.

I have never seen a film being as influenced by the incidents during its making as Highway. The adventures of our north Indian road journey has many stories to tell.

Of course, since we don't see the Indian as a living figure - having turned the Indian into a kind of mascot for the ecology movement, a symbol of prehistory - we can't see the Indian among us.

I have made a short excursion into the new world which the Indian dwells in, or is. He begins where we leave off.

Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters; success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented orders led to shortages and finally failure.

It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians.

I'm not a big fan of western movies and I really don't like cowboy-indian movies. I have never watched them.

Indian actors know how to shout with the eyes.

IT+IT=IT; Indian talent + Information technology = India Tomorrow

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.

I have known the Indians intimately - known them in their private relations - I think I understand the Indian character pretty well.

In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.

I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.

Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.

No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French.

I had an Indian Scout motorcycle during high school, but I never could take it to school. My dad would sneak out at night and pull the spark-plug wires.

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

The perfect weather of Indian Summer lengthened and lingered, warm sunny days were followed by brisk nights with Halloween a presentiment in the air.

West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.

Russell Means is quite a legend in the Indian community for what he's been able to achieve. It was a real honor to work with a guy who's been on the front lines of fighting for what he believes in.

I'm just as white as I am black, and I'm just as Russian Jew as I am West Indian.

I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.

Usually the Indian people are outsiders who have to look up at the people who look down.

I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.

This is the problem with being Indian. It's hard to be one of the family members. Everybody is white usually [in the movie].

It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.

No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances.

Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.

Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.

Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.

Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened.

Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars.

First generation Indian immigrants are mass guinea pigs. When a race that subsisted on plants for centuries subsists on a meat-dominated diet, it scares me to know what's in store for them

I look more Indian when I'm serious.

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future.

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

Indian civilisation does not distinguish in terms of religion. We are an impossible achievement in the world and I'm very proud to be an Indian.

I was far too embarrassed to share the experience of Indian food at school. As a kid, you're desperate to fit in, to assimilate in some way, and everything about me stood out.

One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.

We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.

Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.