People who want to be tattooed don't always have good taste.

The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

I have become an environmentalist, because it is over the environment that the last of the Indian Wars will be fought.

There is Indian time and white man's time. Indian time means never looking at the clock. ... There is not even a word for time in our language.

We didn't have a generation gap, we had a generation Grand Canyon.

To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high rises.

Racism breeds racism in reverse.

Never wear a shoe that doesn't fit you

The principle locations of exploitation have moved, through the mechanism of 'globalisation', to where most of us can't see them and don't really care about them if we do.

Have I ever told you how much I love you, Ever? Have I? Ever, Ever?

The episode of The Fresh Prince in Bel-Air when Will Smith's father disses him. That's sadder than when Mufasa died.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.

Stand-up is every man for himself; you learn from hanging out at these clubs and watching other guys, and then trying not to be like them.

I don't eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.

A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.

But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.